Quotes About Expression

Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.

I would admit that poetry is something more than mere communication and that if that 'something more' could be abstracted from the whole, it might well prove to be that which makes the whole a poem.

And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers' poetry. It would be fun, and really wonderful to get their stuff out there.

So few people read poetry. That's sad, isn't it?

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.

Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

If politics is the art of the possible, theatre is the art of the impossible.

One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that has been very much present in my life from the start.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Politics is not what it pretends to be, the expression of a collective will. Politics breathes well only where this will is multiple, hesitant, confused, and obscure even to itself.

Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives.

You can't say 'I don't do politics,' because silence is a political statement.

Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.

Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

The man who can sing when he hasn't got a thing, he's the king of the whole wide world.

I've always had my voice as a comic. I was never that into politics, or prop comedy.

Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.