Expression Quotes

"Human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light" "Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom." "A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities." "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." "Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree." "To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery" "Always be a poet, even in prose" "To say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words" "I believe that to create good work, you need strong emotion. You need to feel something deeply." "Art is the great democrat calling forth creative genius from every sector of society disregarding race or religion or wealth or color" "I am not one of those who believe that taking drugs produces a permanent bettering of the human mind. Every great writer, every genuine artist, has had the experience of being intoxicated by language." "If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it. People fought for us to have a voice." "Words are like leaves and where they most abound much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found" "We must act out passion before we can feel it." "You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'em but you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em" "When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time" "A poet can survive everything but a misprint." "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music" "Your job is to tell your story." "The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same."