Quotes About Expression

I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.

In summer the songsings itselfabove the muffled words—

What common language to unravel?

A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.

All men by their nature give praise.It is allthey can do.

If they give you lined paper, write the other way.

In summer, the song sings itself.

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.

I would say poetry is language charged with emotion. It's words, rhythmically organized . . . A poem is a complete little universe. It exists separately. Any poem that has any worth expresses the whole life of the poet. It gives a view of what the poet is.

but for the Girl Writing A Letter these things don't matter, she's got a beer in her free hand, she's on the road, she's real and she's in love.

Words cut deeper than knives

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.

Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us, not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters; and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair.

Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.

There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know.

Young children are developing more of an artistic orientation, and the orientation they develop is so naturally graceful and lively that many great artists have said that they constantly try to recapture it.

Walt Whitman was not the first to observe that we are all naked under our clothes, but he was one of the greatest, if not the first, to preach a gospel of nudity.

That's what makes me really think that women can never amount to anything in art. They keep all their appointments, and fulfil all their duties just as if they didn't know anything about art.

the subversion of free speech and free thought are the worst forms of subversion.

Most joyful the Poet be;It is through him that all men see.