Quotes about Expression

She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women, Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong! But they were words she could not say. The only things she said when he released her from his embrace was, 'You don't know how happy I am to be with you.' That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express.

She saw her soul shinning through the features on her face.

Since its beginnings, Western music is bound, by an insurmountable convention, to the need to express subjectivity. It stands against the harsh sound of the outside world just as the sensitive soul stands against the insensibility of the universe.

There is nothing harder to explain than humor.

The invention of printing formerly enabled people to understand one another. In the era of universal graphomania, the writing of books has an opposite meaning: everyone surrounded by his own words as by a wall of mirrors, which allows no voice to filter in from the outside.

That conversation with the taxi driver suddenly made clear to me the essence of the writer's occupation. We write books because our children aren't interested in us. We address ourselves to an anonymous world because our wives plug their ears when we speak to them.

The crew of her soul rushed up to the deck of her body.

The genius of lyric poetry is the genius of inexperience.

A single metaphor can give birth to love. To love someone out of compassion means not really to love.

Love does not to be understood. It needs only to be shown.

Love doesn't need to be discussed; it has its own voice and speaks for itself.

Love doesn't need to be understood, it needs to be demonstrated