expression

Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and desires expressed for others to hear, to see and to understand. We all want to matter to someone, to leave a mark. Writers just take those thoughts, feelings and desires and express them in such a way that the reader not only reads them but feels them as well.

Personal life, expression, knowledge, and history advance obliquely, and not directly, toward ends or toward concepts. That which is sought too deliberately is not obtained.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

The goal of art was the vital expression of self.

In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, the Beetle, the 2CV, and the Fiat 500 were all, in their various ways, inspired incarnations of functionality.

Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

Poetry is the wailing of a broken heart__he etched sorrows of despairing souls. _These artful words are an exclamation in rare colors expressed noiselessly on parchment. _Poetry is the unheard cry of a flower, wilting. _It is a humble, lucent tear shed with meaning. _It is the lovely portrayal of ugliness and the bitter edge of sweet. _Poetry speaks to the spirit by piercing understanding. It interprets all senseless truths__eauty, love, emotion__nto sensible scrawl. _Poetry is vague affirmation and bewildering clarification. Like the most poignant of emotions, we understand the essence but cannot adequately do it verbal justice, crippled by inherently weak tongues._ A spiritual soothsayer, poetry is the closest thing to expression of feelings unutterable.

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

Charity can be the outward expression of faith and hope.

Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.