Quotes About Expression

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

We may give more offense by our silence than even by impertinence.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Words are the only things that last forever; they are more durable than the eternal hills

The path of genius is free, and its own

To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes.

Words are the only things that last for ever.

He who has a contempt for poetry cannot have much respect for himself or for anything else.

Boys are always inarticulate where their deepest feelings are concerned; however much they may desire it they cannot express kind and sympathetic feelings.

the mystical faculty in me which produced those strange rushes or bursts of feeling

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.

That love, which fails of perfect utterance here, Lives on to fill the heavenly atmosphere With its immortal song.

If there is a bedrock principle of the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.

The Constitution does not speak of freedom for those who wish to say only what society approves. The First Amendment guarantees freedom of expression without qualification.

Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide open, and that… may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

To understand creativity is to conquer the boundaries of time and space.