Quotes about Expression

As a teenager I went all Goth, but I wasn't mopey enough. I would pretend to be, but I'd end up making people laugh.

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

The secret sauce of the business that I can offer is my creativity, and in order to keep my creativity alive and fresh, I have to pretend that no one is watching the show, that there are no audiences, there are no ratings; I'm just telling a story.

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

A poem… begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with. It is at its best when it is a tantalizing vagueness.

The artist in me cries out for design.

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Wine is bottled poetry.