Quotes about Expression
My soul experienced a peace so sweet, so deep, it would be impossible to express it.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.
— John Updike
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
— Jim Rohn
The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.
— Peter Kreeft
When your heart is heavy, sometimes it's just easier to retweet the words of another person who seems to know exactly how you feel.
— Germany Kent
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
— Aristotle
The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.
— Vincent Van Gogh
We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Wine is bottled poetry.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize
— Oscar Wilde
The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.
— Samuel Johnson