"What is that you express in your..." - Quote by Walt Whitman
What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.
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“I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.”
“Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.”
“O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?”
More on Expression
“I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion given off by it.”
“Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.”
“How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint.”
More on Communication
“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.”
“Trustable words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not trustable.”
“After some while Bilbo became impatient. "Well, what is it?" he said. "The answer's not a kettle boiling over, as you seem to think by the noise you are making.”