#Expression Quotes

“The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.”

“The cheekIs apter than the tongue to tell an errand.”

“I will be free, even to the uttermost, as I please, in words.”

“The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.”

“What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say”

“I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss.”

“Thou canst not speak of what thou dost not feel.”

“Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.”

“Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.”

“The heart hath treble wrongWhen it is barr'd the aidance of the tongue.”

“If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.”

“I cannot, nor I will not hold me still; My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.”

“Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.”

“Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicityIn least speak most, to my capacity.”

“Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”

“O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.”

“A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.”

“Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.”

“Eyes...They speak all languages.”

“Words are finite expressions of the infinite mind.”

“Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.”

“In good writing, words become one with things.”

“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.”

“When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin with his big-swoln face? And wilt thou have a reason for this coil? I am the sea; hark, how her sighs do blow! She is the weeping welkin, I the earth: Then must my sea be moved with her sighs; Then must my earth with her continual tears Become a deluge, overflow'd and drown'd: For why my bowels cannot hide her woes, But like a drunkard must I vomit them. Then give me leave, for losers will have leave To ease their stomachs with their bitter tongues.”

“My love's more richer than my tongue.”

“The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.”

“And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.”

“A kindOf excellent dumb discourse.”

“Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in many materials to many temporary ends. Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakspeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. Painting was called "silent poetry," and poetry "speaking painting." The laws of each art are convertible into the laws of every other.”

“A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep; and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.”

“A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a heart in unison with his time and country. There is nothing whimsical or fantastic in his production, but sweet and sad earnest, freighted with the weightiest convictions, and pointed with the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times.”

“Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.”

“The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.”

“We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.”

“O, let my books be then the eloquenceAnd dumb presagers of my speaking breast,Who plead for love, and look for recompense,More than that tongue that more hath more expressed.”

“Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.”

“A good indignation makes an excellent speech.”

“Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that I write ?”

“Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use”

“This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.”

“Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.”

“When love first tasted the lips of being human, it started singing.”

“Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.”

“A white flower grows in the quietness. Let your tongue become that flower.”

“This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.”

“The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.”

“Art is evidence of our most creative moment.”

“Speak to me as to thy thinkings,As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughtsThe worst of words.”

“No more holding back.Be reckless.Tell your Love to everybody.”

“The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.”