“Of course I love you, it is my fault that you have not known it all the while.”— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com
“When your feelings cannot be put into spoken words, you feel like exploding.”— Charmaine Penalba, philosophicallogical.tumblr.com
“Never forget how right it felt when my lips finally touched yours.”— Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher, amazon.com
“A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion finds the thought and the thought finds the words.”— Robert Frost, en.wikiquote.org
“I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real.”— Marc Jacobs, goodreads.com
“I’m always afraid of opening up when my mind is louder than my heart; afraid of what the monsters will let slip. I want to get the story out, but I keep swallowing my words and they crumble before I can put them down on paper.”— Joshua Greenaway, wnq-writers.com
“I don’t know how to express that being with someone so dangerous was the last time I felt safe.”— Janet Fitch, amazon.com
“The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I’m not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don’t think you get a true picture of people without it in writing… It’s a kind of poetry, it’s an emotional poetry, and, to bring it back to the literary scene, I don’t think anything is true that doesn’t have it, that doesn’t have poet…”— Nelson Algren, amazon.com
“To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.”— John Ruskin, amazon.com
“A bird does not sing because he has an answer. He sings because he has a song.”— Joan Walsh Anglund, amazon.com
“You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.”— Margaret Mead, goodreads.com
“She’s letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you’re in big trouble.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Sometimes things come out of your mouth that you regret later on. Or no, not regret. You say something so razor-sharp that the person you say it to carries it around with them for the rest of their life.”— Herman Koch, amazon.com
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way - things I had no words for.”— Georgia O’Keeffe, amazon.com