Quotes About Expression

A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

Children's lies are signs of great talent.

I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.

One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.

I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell.

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

I have no desire to write anything for screen. That's a great talent.

I like to go through the zine sections of local bookstores when on the road and have found a lot of really great kind of underground stuff that way. It all feeds into everything else.

A great artist has a unique vision...obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly.

Jonathan Kreisberg is a great musician whose playing and writing always tell a story. His formidable technique and intellect never get in the way, but only serve the agenda of the heart.

There's no way to replicate a really great vocal sometimes.

But in my mind I've always been a solo artist- I've just been working with a lot of great people like Kanye and Alicia Keys and Jay-Z.

To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.

I think it's great when dramatic actors do lighter, funny roles.

I think I have more humour in me than anger. But those two things are great bed-fellows, performance-wise.

I have a great smile. A lot of people don't know that.

I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available.