Quotes About Expression

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

If it sounds good, it IS good.

Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.

Jazz is the only unhampered, unhindered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.

There is a feeling like anger and betrayal. It is like frustration. It is something interior, ineffable, and it yearns to be effed. I can only emit yells, instead.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.

I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.

i will wade out until my thighs are steeped in burning flowers. i will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air

Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why? Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.

my mind is a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp fatal tools in an agony of sensual chisels i perform squirms of chrome and ex -ecute strides of cobalt nevertheless i feel that i cleverly am being altered that i slightly am becoming something a little different, in fact myself hereupon helpless i utter lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings

down with hell and heaven and all the religious fuss infinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise

I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

mr youse needn't be so spry concernin questions arty each has his tastes but as for i i likes a certain party gimme the he-man's solid bliss for youse ideas i'll match youse a pretty girl who naked is is worth a million statues

Damn everything but the circus!. . .The average 'painter' 'sculptor' 'poet' 'composer' 'playwright' is a person who cannot leap through a hoop from the back of a galloping horse, make people laugh with a clown's mouth, orchestrate twenty lions.

the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

and from my thighs which shrug and pant a murdering rain leapingly reaches the upward singular deepest flower which she carries in a gesture of her hips)

I will not kiss your fucking flag

i think you will be tired of telling me & my dreams to go to hell