Quotes about Expression

Oh-my-fucking-God!

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence.

Just as water mirrors your face, so your face mirrors your heart.

Writing to explore and discover what I didn't know. Writing as a way of entering into language and letting language enter me, words connecting with words and creating what had previously been inarticulate or unnoticed or hidden. Writing as a way of paying attention. Writing as an act of prayer.

Good poetry survives not when it is pretty or beautiful or nice but when it is true: accurate and honest.

It's your heart, not the dictionary, that gives meaning to your words.

Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

It was important for me to remind people that there's no formula... there's no boundary to R&B music.

There's so many ways you can play one chord progression that the repetition isn't ever exactly the same.