Quotes by Expression Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... / Passion and expression are beauty itself. William Blake passionexpressionenthusiasm Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it. William Chillingworth causesexpressionmen When a man makes a poem, makes it, mind you, he takes words as he finds them interrelated about him and composes them - without distortion which would mar their exact significances - into an intense expression of his perceptions and ardors that they may constitute a revelation in the speech that he uses. It isn't what he says that counts as a work of art, it's what he makes, with such intensity of perception that it lives with an intrinsic movement of its own to verify its authenticity. William Carlos Williams expressionmenart Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression. William Congreve confusionexpressionloss A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is one of many possible representations of an embodied thing, or familiar principle, and belongs to fancy and not to imagination: the one is a revelation, the other an amusement. William Butler Yeats flamesexpressionspiritual What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident? William Butler Yeats moodliteratureexpression All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly; to act nobly, we must think nobly. William Ellery Channing inwardpositive-thinkingexpression The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it. William H. Gass movementexpressionwriting Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. William Hazlitt graceexpressionspiritual "As the crow flies" - a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line. William Henry Maule crowlinesexpression Writing is an outward expression of instinctive insight that must be summoned from the vastly deep of our mysterious selves. Therefore, it cannot be taught; indeed, it cannot even be summoned; it can only be permitted. William Hughes Mearns expressionselfwriting Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society, of the social contract, and of a cure for all the social evils by a return to a state of nature, had, as we all know now, no more relation to fact than the dreams of an illiterate drunkard; but they were not without value as a vague and symbolical expression of certain evils from which the France of his day was suffering. William Hurrell Mallock expressionevildream Landscapes, even when their general type is similar, are capable of as many expressions as the same type of human face, and, without our being able fully to tell why, affect our spirits as we look at them with as many moods and meanings. William Hurrell Mallock expressionfaceslooks The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased. William Hazlitt pleasureexpressionart If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable. William J. Brennan governmentexpressionideas The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference; it argues presence of mind rather than enlargement of ideas. William Hazlitt presence-of-mindexpressionideas A hypothetical theory is necessary, as a preliminary step, to reduce the expression of the phenomena to simplicity and order before it is possible to make any progress in framing an abstractive theory. William John Macquorn Rankine simplicityexpressionorder But you go to a great school, not for knowledge so much as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming at a moment's notice a new intellectual posture, for the art of entering quickly into another person's thoughts, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation, for the art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms, for the habit of regarding minute points of accuracy, for the habit of working out what is possible in a given time, for taste, for discrimination, for mental courage and mental soberness. William Johnson Cory expressionartschool Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before. William Hazlitt imaginationexpressionsight Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease. William James asceticismexpressionease«143144145146147148149150151152153»
