#expression

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. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#course #emotion #emotions #escape #expression

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in. ↗

— John Turturro

#inside #interest #lies #me #my self

I wish I could give you all the examples over the last two years as secretary of agriculture, where I hear people in rural America constantly being criticized, without any expression of appreciation for what they do do. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#america #any #appreciation #being #constantly

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#almost #crime #desire #due #expression

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#expression #humanity #literature #outlook #receives

I am not on this planet to get something done - the things we accomplish are expressions of our purpose. ↗

— Paul Williams

#am #done #expressions #get #i

Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#expression #fragmented #lend #live #lives

I paint abstract expressions. ↗

— Billy Zane

#expressions #i #paint

Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#entire #everything #expression #fabric #germ

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#baroque #contemporary #epochs #expressions #findings