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Expression Quotes

"I want people to feel a deep intimacy in my music and connect to it on another level."

"I am ashamed to tell you this, but I have nothing to say"

"Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation."

"Poetry is an act of peace"

"Envisage—an unpleasant and overworked word."

"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."

"There is nothing to express, nothing with which to express, nothing from which to express, no power to express, no desire to express, together with the obligation to express."

"The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race"

"The essence of creativity is a willingness to play the fool."

"Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect."

"To draw you must close your eyes and sing."

"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."

"Somewhere between psychotic and iconic"

"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion"

"The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist."

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