Melvin Calvin Quotes

Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

Feelings are like a color chart that God has given us.

I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve; I write about them.

Everything I do tries to do the same thing, which is to express things that are hard to express, hidden things.

I found in my writing that I could express emotions that, as an everyday person, I have no interest in expressing: these strange things that girls talk about called feelings.

When you're writing songs for yourself, as all artists do, it's about 'me.' It's about what you feel and your emotions. You're trying to get something out of your system about your experiences.

I think self-expression is present at all times, and whether or not you're talking about the outside world or your responses to it depends on the moment and the subject.

My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.

I have nothing to speak of but my self-and what can I say but what I feel.

Find a way to express what moves you.

One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.

There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have art.

This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling

To tell you my thoughts is to locate myself in a category. To tell you about my feelings is to tell you about me.

There's not one reference in that thing that doesn't play. People deal with emotions in music all the time, but comedians are always talking about what they see. But we seldom talk about what we feel.

I perceive the world through the wide range of emotions that whirl all around in it.

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

Painting is a state of being.

I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started writing. At least on paper I could put down what I thought.

It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.

I still don't know how to express the really delicate personal stuff. People think that Plastic Ono is very personal, but there are some subtleties of emotions which I cannot seem to express in pop music, and it frustrates me. Maybe that's why I still search for other ways of expressing myself. Song writing is a limiting experience in some ways - writing down words that have to rhyme.

They say that I am a poet I wonder what they would say if they saw me from the inside I bottle emotions and place them into the sea for others to unbottle on distant shores I am unsure as to whether they ever reach and for that matter as to whether I ever get my point across or my love

...no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it.