Quotes About Expression

Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.

The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one's words and one's soul.

The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He—or she—is the new mainstream.

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.

Attempt to be creative for the joy it brings . . . select something like music, dance, sculpture, or poetry. Being creative will help you enjoy life. It engenders a spirit of gratitude.

A friend came over to the house a few days ago and read one of my poems. He came back today and asked to read the same poem over again. After he finished reading it, he said, "It makes me want to write poetry."

It's not just the kid who's spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, it's also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car, because it's more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel, to be quite honest.

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way.

The truly creative mind is hardly ever so much alone as when it is trying to be sociable. The

The writer is a kind of tuning-fork for a melody yet to be composed.

Were I a woman, I would all day long Sing my own beauty in some holy song, Bend low before it, hushed and half afraid, And say 'I am a woman' all day long.

There are really no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.

And under my breath I was telling it to hisht and for shame, and if I had known any swearing I would have had that in, too.

The man who goes to the top is the man who has something to say and says it when circumstances warrant. Men who keep silent underdressed are moral cowards.

Well, my mother said, and she was not exactly smiling, but as though she was wrapping a smile inside a thought.

O, Voice of Man, organ of most lovely might.

Sing, then. Sing, indeed, with shoulders back, and head up so that song might go to the roof and beyond to the sky. Mass on mass of tone, with a hard edge, and rich with quality, every single note a carpet of colour woven from basso profundo, and basso, and baritone, and alto, and tenor, and soprano, and alto and mezzo, and contralto, singing and singing, until life and all things living are become a song. O, Voice of Man, organ of most lovely might.

With words I have knit my shroud and will bury myself therein

People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought.

When the power of saying is small, the power of thinking is small.