Expression Quotes

"The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity" "To weep is to risk appearing sentimental" "To place your ideas, your dreams before the crowd is to risk loss" "A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep" "A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return" "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."