Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
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Spread love everywhere you go First of all in your own house.. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
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We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder 'censorship,' we call it 'concern for commercial viability.'
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there id only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.
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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
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Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
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The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
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Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.
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A poem begins with a lump in the throat, a home sickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where the emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words.
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[I]t is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not an expression or a series of expressions, but literally a volume, a prism with six rectangular sides made of thin sheets of pap
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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Silence will not betray your thoughts but the expression on your face will. Humor has a hundred faces tragedy only a few.
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Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsiblity and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.
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People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.
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A moment's thought shows that man's feeling of isolation has no foundation, biologically or sociologically. We grow out of the Universe, we are an expression of it. The iron in our blood comes from the high temperature fusion of stars. We constantly interact with our environment. The force of gravity keeps our feet upon the earth and has a vital effect upon our metabolism. The air we breathe comes form the seas and the leaves, and the sun allows the process to take place. Society gives us all that makes us human our culture, our symbols, our concepts and our values. Without society, the notion of the individual would have no meaning.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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The computer is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
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A poem begins with a lump in the throat, a homesickness or a lovesickness. It is a reachingout toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where the emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words.
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It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
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If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.
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Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ectasy.
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Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.
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I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
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