Quotes about Expression

The true poem is the poet's mind; the true ship is the ship-builder.

when we look in their faces we are disconcerted. Infancy conforms to nobody;

Of all the religions in the world, there is none with the wealth of music that the Christian faith offers.

If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence?

If musicians and artists have no absolutes, they end up caring more about the way the thing is told than about the thing itself, and they slide deeper and deeper till it's their means rather than the ends that matter.

Without words life would be inexpressible. Even the best of emotions beg for a verbal expression. That is why the musician reaches not just to the melody but to the romance of language to bring harmony to life.

The sense of this, it seemed to me, might be that from above or below, or from any point of the compass, the creative Word might be heard, which is the great thesis of democracy. Democracy assumes that anybody from any quarter can speak, and speak truth, because his mind is not cut off from the truth. All he has to do is clear out his passions and then speak.

You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules.

I wonder what kind of person would come out if I ever did erase all my inhibitions at once, what kind of being is bottled up inside me now.

He could not make them shut-up; they were worse than women. They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed.

A martyred look accompanied this reply, belying her air of passionless indifference.

Our mouth gives expression to what we think, feel, and want. Our mind tells us what we think, not necessarily what God thinks. Our will tells us what we want, not what God wants. And our emotions tell us what we feel, not what God feels. As our soul is purified, it is trained to carry God's thoughts, desires, and feelings; then we become a mouthpiece for the Lord!