Quotes About Expression

David Felton, his former editor at Rolling Stone, called it "probably the worst-edited and most self-indulgent work since the Bible. There doesn't seem to be any order.

I write to escape. I haven't managed it yet, but I'm working on it

The facts of a man's life ain't very important, but it seems like they should get said anyways.

I like writing about what I saw and not what I was supposed to see.

If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.

Well, if this is poetry, it is very easy to write.

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.

If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.

If you can't find the book you want to read, write it.

colectiva. Nuestros aplausos pronto se apagaron.

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

Literature should not be surpressed merely because it affects the moral code of the censor.

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

You can't lead bunny lives and write tiger poetry.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

Good writing is rhythm.

If instead of just clay I could take all the prettiest things Like a rainbow, Or clouds or the way a bird sings, Maybe then, dearest Mommy, If I put them all together, I could really make a sculpture of you.

Whenever she grinned, her entire face appeared to crinkle.

That's right. He was smacking his lips a little, that's all." "He was smacking his lips a little?" "Well, yes." Kinderman

You always smile but in your eyes your sorrow shows.

Like any crowd in a democracy they were looking for someone to vent their anger on