922 Quotes About Expression

Power isn't the big cars and bent slavesPower is your people in the streets as they drag you to prison.

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

It may be our actions that define us, but it is our reaction that changes the course of things.

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression.

Do you ever think that people who find it tougher to say what they're feeling are the ones who feel things more intensely? As if they're the ones who really understand what it means to love someone? As if they have to keep their defenses high, because they care too much and have too much to lose?

We sing because we can't speak anymore.

Artistry exists in everyone. What makes it blossom is a soul's personal desire to find an outlet for expression.

We are the wilderness withinScreaming out for true expression.Even when we’re sleeping,There’s no escape from this obsession.

The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And he is not likely to know what is to be done unless he lives in what is not merely the present, but the present moment of the past, unless he is conscious, not of what is dead, but of what is already living.