Mahatma Gandhi Quotes, Writing Quotes, Expression Quotes

Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.

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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

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I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.

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The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

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Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

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Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.

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My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.

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I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.

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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.

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Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

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I think it's more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle. It's difficult because it forces you to really get creative.

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The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.

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I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross: that it's to be pulled through only in a breathless anguish.

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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.

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I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

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The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

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The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

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