Quotes About Expression

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

Too often the strong silent man is silent because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

In 1759, the great lexicographer Dr Samuel Johnson wrote: 'Advertisements are now so numerous they are very negligently perused.' An opinion many people express to this day, without realizing its centuries-old ancestry.

Strange sometimes how easy bitter words came, how hard the kind ones.

Men's tongues in some things outrun women's.

The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.

I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

Dios creó al hombre con la intención de que el hombre fuese un sacerdote, es decir, una persona que se acerca a Dios, le permite a Dios fluir por medio de él, es saturado con Dios y expresa la gloria de Dios. Dios también tuvo la intención de que el hombre ejerciera Su autoridad.

If we study Ephesians with a spirit of revelation, we will realize that the aim of God's plan is to have an expression of Himself in Christ the Son by the Spirit through a Body composed and built up with many regenerated and transformed people by the mingling of Himself with humanity.

Our drinking of God as the living water is for the church as His increase; our drinking is for the producing of His enlargement, His fullness, for His expression.

An idea abstracted from man does not fully exist…. There is no word that is not also flesh.

Spirit is born of the imitation of spirit and a writer must pretend to be a writer in order finally to become a writer.

Great! I've written something stupid, but I haven't signed a contract with anyone to produce solely wise and perfect works. I gave vent to my stupidity...and here I am, reborn.

Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it.

Wielka Poezja b?d?c wielk? i b?d?c poezj? nie mo?e nie zachwyca? nas, a wi?c zachwyca!

Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre.

To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.

What ho!" I said. "What ho!" said Motty. "What ho! What ho!" "What ho! What ho! What ho!" After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.