Quotes About Expression

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

The banal advice of writ in teachers is "write what you know," but the truth is, you don't know a place until you write it. "Write what you want to know" is more like it.

Changes in consciousness begin with art and take shape through discussion of art. But the process takes a long time and involves a lot of people working in many small ways.

The writer… begins in confusion and nothingness and writes his way into clarity.

Writing is… a descent into the self.

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.

Writing is a deeply spiritual act that can have a profound effect upon the practitioner.

Writing is not only a reflection of what one thinks and feels but a rope one weaves with words that can lower you below or hoist you above the surface of your life, enabling you to go deeper or higher than you would otherwise go. What excites me about his metaphor is that is makes writing much more than a lifesaving venture.

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart"- Phyllis Theroux

Emo Mimes: They rock out to mute blank tapes next door.

Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.

I'd turned to writing because it offered few escape routes or hiding places; it's harder to lie to yourself on the page than in the world.

Words have little value in the kingdom of essential things. They're just decorations on the feelings too deep for us to put into syllables.

The symbols mean everything if you accept the feelings that they carry.

Nothing sets you (or at least me) free creatively," says the untamed film director and Monty Pythonite, Terry Gilliam, "like having a set of limitations to explore.

Tu sei come una pietra preziosa che viene violentemente frantumata in mille schegge per poter essere ricostruita di una materiale più duraturo di quello della vita, cioè il materiale della poesia.

Provò una gioia dolcissima perché gli sembrò che quelle prime parole che aveva scritto avessero il sapore del pane e il profumo di un buon rossetto.

All has been done, each theme has been attack'd, And Authors' Heads are like a city sack'd!

I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.

Like language, books serve to express us, but also to complete us, furnishing, through a variety of excerpted and reworked fragments, the missing elements of our personality.

L'auteur n'attend nullement un résumé ou un commentaire argumenté de son livre et il est même préférable que ceux-ci ne lui soient pas donnés, il attend seulement, en préservant la plus grande ambiguïté possible, qu'on lui dise avoir aimé ce qu'il a écrit.

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

It's not a matter of painting life. It's a matter of giving life to painting.