Expression Quotes

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Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions. — Philibert Joseph Roux
One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have… — George Edward Woodberry
Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression… — Elbert Hubbard
For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to… — Rudyard Kipling
Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof. — Stephen Leacock
All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its… — Margaret Fuller
The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of… — John Drinkwater
The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best… — John Drinkwater
Any test that turns on what is offensive to the communitys standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be… — William O. Douglas
Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire. — Hafez
Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea. — George Matthew Adams
The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social… — Anna Garlin Spencer
But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving. — Mark Strand
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the… — Clive James
It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not… — Jorge Luis Borges
A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy,… — Mary Baker Eddy
That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from… — Josiah Royce
I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all… — Florence King
The word is a force you cannot see, but you can see the manifestation of that force, the expression of the word, which is your… — Miguel Angel Ruiz

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