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Expressive Quotes


"I've just simply used what I've used because of the great, great expressive potential of it."


"It must have been an endless breathing in: between the wish to know and the wish to praise there was no seam."


"Life is a luminous halo a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning."



"Air of dustFor a moment I was a storm cloud,All righteous booming thunder;All sharp and pinning,Dazzling.Once the flashing fadedA sizzling prong sprang upwards.I was positively popped.The static situationStruck meNegatively, And I leaked out sulfur on the peopleWho dared hold up the sky.Strong storms are still bonelessAnd mostly all alone."


"The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows."


"So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea."


"It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, half-way down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waters swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad."
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