Quotes about Expression

There is a silence. But sometimes it's as dangerous not to speak.

It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are too many parts, sides, crosscurrents, nuances; too many gestures, which could mean this or that, too many shapes which can never be fully described

Sex and violence, he thinks now. A lot of the songs were about that. We didn't even notice. We thought it was art.

know what you mean, we'd say. Or, a quaint expression you sometimes hear, still, from older people: I hear where you're coming from, as if the voice itself were a traveler, arriving from a distant place. Which it would be, which it is.

I take back what you have stolen, and in your languages I announce I am now nameless. My true name is a growl.

your kiss no longer literature but fine print, a set of instructions.

Poems are made of words. They aren't boxes. They aren't houses. Nobody is in them, really.

That is how we writers all started: by reading. We heard the voice of a book speaking to us.

Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship.

Gratitude is what you feel. Thanksgiving is what you do.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.