Quotes about Expression

We are on this planet but once, and to spend it holding back our gushing appreciation of the things that light us up is a shameful waste.

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes the shape of that container. So many people you see in prison, unleashing war on their people, they are angry, and they take their anger and put it into a violent container.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.

I played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it - there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.

One would be lying if one didn't say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket.

Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

As a public poet, people often don't see the reality of my life.

Anyone who holds a pen these days thinks he or she is a poet.

Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.