Beauty without expression is boring.
Interpretation
Beauty needs to be expressed to have meaning; otherwise, it lacks excitement.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that beauty in its raw form, without any form of expression, becomes tedious and uninspiring. It implies that the essence of beauty is fully realized only when it is conveyed through creativity or emotion, making it engaging and meaningful to both the creator and the observer.
In practice
During an art class, to emphasize the importance of expressing beauty through various mediums.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
A typical TV show is always about protecting the franchise - it's all about stretching it out as long as you can take it. And it's about taking the characters in any given hour as far as you can take them, but then resetting them more or less back to zero so at the beginning of the next week, so they're still the character you know and love.
What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.
But I really resist categories β that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women's art, political art β those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.
The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.
Writing songs used to be my hobby; it used to be my getaway.
White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.
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