Quotes about Expression

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.

If you want to make a Christian work, then be Christian, and simply try to make a beautiful work, into which your heart will pass; do not try to "make Christian.

And what is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversation?

Then you should say what you mean, the March Hare went on. I do, Alice hastily replied; at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know. Not the same thing a bit! said the Hatter. You might just as well say that I see what I eat is the same thing as I eat what I see!