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Expression Quotes


"Everything you do, do with great love.Make it a song of your soul,and beauty of your heart."


"If you can weep with your words, the meaning of your heart can be written forever."


"His voice is like a thunderstorm, and his hands know every secret hidden deep beneath the cool, dark earth."


"And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather are metaphors."


"Words have less substance than air. Don't tell me about your zealous dreams, your firm convictions, your profound love-show me."


"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."


"Let your eyes talk, mouth listens and ear sleeps."


"Her voice was caught in the shell of my ear, as if it were the ocean."


"One day I finally decided, that there is no point sharing my feelings, You don't enjoy..."


"If you're to explain your works, then surely you have chosen wrong audience!"


"A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known."


"Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew."


"Write the words on your heart."


"You're free to wear whatever you want, you know."


"A loud mind is greater than a loud mouth."


"Her words are her wings. She's flying."


"Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression."


"In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all."


"Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe."


"So, show the world, make it seeYou are you, and I am me."


"THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD!!!!"


"The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever."


"And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking."


"Don't allow anyone to hold you back from expressing your feelings. Maybe you just can't stand a chance of losing some friends, but if you must be truly you, you must be you! Nothing else!"


"How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described."


"They compose poems to their knives."


"The story comes, and it is pure story. That's all I set out to write. But I don't believe that we can write any kind of story without including, whether we intend to or not, our response to the world around us."


"Find a voice in a whisper."


"Take the blinders from your visiontake the padding from your earsand confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears."


"Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud."


"Dress the part! Invent and pretend to your heart's content! Act, sing, and dance while everyone's watching! The world's a stage, remember?"


"Your words... I hold them deeplike ancient skinshold wrinkles."


"There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for."


"What we say has conversational value, what we do has true value for life."


"Don't criticize me because of what I write, because for all you know, I could be right!"


"He keeps his voice kindly but remote. A cross between a pedagogue, soothsayer, and a benevolent uncle - that should be his tone."


"If you want people to dance to your tune, sing beautiful songs."


"Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her life and truth in what you say, in the pictures you have painted, and this decreases the terrible sense of isolation that we have all had too much of."


"How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn't pull the trigger?"


"Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal."



"It's so easy to be a poetand so hard to be a man."



"The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth."


"If words are the truth, what is living for?"


"The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real."


"I let out a sound that was definitely not a whimper. It was something far more manly, no matter what it sounded like."


"Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences."


"Snooty knew measly talked muchly."


"Speak from the heart and feel your tension melt away."


"Even if you can't dance, you can shake your body. Even if you can't sing, you can make some noise."
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