Quotes about Expression

A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words. Some poems took years to find their words.

I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.

Wear audacious underwear under the most solemn business attire.

1425: When you really like someone, tell them. Sometimes you only get one chance.

True poets lead no one unawares. It is nothing other than awareness that poets-that is, creators of all sorts-seek. They do not display their art so as to make it appear real; they display the real in a way that reveals it to be art.

If you're unhappy, you can't make anything.

When I was younger, I had pink underneath my hair, and I got detention. I went to an all-girls school where you wore a uniform, and pink hair was not OK.

Art is a unifying language for all of us from across the world, and it transcends boundaries.

I know I'm probably digging for fresh fruit in the garbage, and as much as anyone, my attitude is, if stuff's sincere, it's gooey and boring and uninteresting. But it's no way to live.

I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.

I don't have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.