Robert Frost Quotes, Expression Quotes, Effort Quotes

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

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Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.

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Tags : Akhil Sharma Quotes , Book Quotes , Expression Quotes

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Expression Quotes

It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Self Quotes , Expression Quotes

Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so is there a laugh of terror and a laugh of merriment.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Laughter Quotes , Expression Quotes

The forms have value only so far as they are expressions of the life within. If they have ceased to express life, crush them out without mercy.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Crush Quotes , Expression Quotes

One does not concern oneself with the expressions, but rather with life. You are looking at life through the wrong end of the telescope when you look at the expressions of life.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Expression Quotes , Doe Quotes

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Real Quotes , Expression Quotes

The art of art, the glory of expression, is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity, and the sunlight of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity-nothing can make up for excess, or for the lack of definiteness.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Art Quotes , Expression Quotes

This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.

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Tags : Jack London Quotes , Expression Quotes , Surrender Quotes

Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate as human culture...Without his idealistic attitude all, even the most dazzling faculties of the intellect, would remain mere intellect just like outward appearance without inner value, and never creative force....The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Attitude Quotes , Expression Quotes

POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Expression Quotes , Land Quotes