Quotes About Expression

The good thing about living alone is, you can say things out loud without worrying about how crazy they sound.

Girls were meant to paint screens, sob out ballads, and play the pianoforte, not see through the masks of polite society. "It

Alison Goodman

But there is a chasm between what is known and what is said.

We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature.

Never feel bad for being assertive, speaking your mind, and putting your foot down. What you think is anger, others see as a good solid display of self-esteem.

Being in the studio is a really romantic time.

We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

you can't write well with only the nice parts of your character, and only about nice things. And I don't want even to try anymore. I want to use everything, including hate and envy and lust and fear.

No entiendo por qué te empeñas en seguir escribiendo —me dijo una vez que estaba especialmente deprimida —. Da la impresión de que hacerlo te causa un enorme malestar.

Clara Winter," he said. "You are a word person and don't ever forget it." He was right. He knew. He could tell. It's something that can be sensed. There's a difference between word-people and non-word-people.

I am not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do. No mystique.

Writers write about what worries them.

Music is the lubricant of the poor.

Christ, woman, were you ever going to say anything?" He grabbed her by the wrist and tugged her down the hall to the single bathroom. "Get out of that shirt.

Funerals are the rituals we create to help us face the reality of death, to give us a way of expressing our response to that reality with other persons, and to protect us from the full impact of the meaning of death for ourselves. Some funerals fulfill these functions beautifully. Others fail.

Prose is sending poets to prison. Poetry is the poet in prison secretly composing poems by heart, going right on with the truth.

The sensual and spiritual are the same energy playing at different speeds, like poetry and dance.

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry

Shakespeare is to me the purest voice of nature, and he does no meddle with nature. His plays provide us with the greatest variety of erotic expression, and with Shakespeare eros is the proper term to use.

Most writers in older lands despaired of being understood by those who had not lived their language.

If the noble and the sacred cannot find serious expression in democracy, its choiceworthiness becomes questionable. These are the arguments, the special pleading of the reactionaries, the disinherited of the ancien rgime.

Nothing noble, sublime, profound, delicate, tasteful or even decent can find a place in such tableaux [as Rock music]. There is room only for the intense, changing, crude and immediate, which Tocqueville warned us would be the character of democratic art.

Psychology finds causes of creativity that blur the difference between a Raphael and a finger painter. Everything is in that difference, which necessarily escapes our science.