Expression Quotes

"Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true" "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed" "Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts" "The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly." "The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life" "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood" "One should use common words to say uncommon things" "Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." "I want my careless song to strike no minor key no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song the fusion of the South the blood of all the races" "There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions. And words." "Words are spades digging the cairns of those who can't speak" "Art is making something out of nothing and selling it" "The real risks for any artist are taken... in the work" "The story is everything, which means that it's always something of an adventure to tell it" "Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists" "To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active" "We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives" "Bring me all of your dreams you dreamer bring me all your heart melodies" "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness" "The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds"