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I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration.
masiela lusha— On why she writes
[T]he individual in whom the will for the light is strong and clear finds his heart inextricably bound up with the struggle of the forces of light in his native place and time. Much as he may long for the opportunity of fuller self- expression in a happier world, he knows that for him self-expression is impossible save in the world in which his mind is rooted. The individual in whom the will for the light is weak soon persuades himself that his opportunity lies elsewhere.
Olaf Stapledon— Part V The Reign of Darkness, 3. Diabolic World Empire.
One is forced to remember how far from "self-expression" great poems are what a strange compromise between the demands of the self, the world, and Poetry they actually represent.
Randall Jarrell— "The Profession of Poetry," Partisan Review (September/October 1950) [p. 168]
For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, They arrive at their conclusions largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none: But sometimes in a smoking-room, one learns why things were done.
rudyard kipling— The Puzzler, Stanza 3 (1909).
Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not only a food-factory but an instrument for self-expression, on which each can play music to his own choosing.
aldo leopold— "The Conservation Ethic" [1933]; Published in The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold, Susan L. Flader and J. Baird Callicott (eds.) 1991, p. 191
Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not only a food-factory but an instrument for self-expression, on which each can play music to his own choosing.
— Aldo Leopold A Sand County Almanac, 1949 "The Conservation Ethic" [1933], p. 191
Suicide is self-expression.
— Type O Negative in "Gravitational Constant G = 6.67 × 10?8 cm?3gm?1sec?2" on Slow, Deep and Hard (1991) [originally titled None More Negative]
Hustler Magazine v. Falwell is a classic First Amendment case. Its antagonists could have been selected by central casting to embody the fundamental constitutional tension between anarchich self-expression and strict civic virtue.
— Post, Robert (1995). Constitutional Domains: Democracy, Community, Management. Harvard University Press. pp. 121-122. ISBN 0674165454.
Beginning with the concern with self-expression in the 1970s, when cultural developments encouraged self-exploration, the New Age developed from what has been described as self-religions such as EST, a self-improvement method based on Erhard Seminars Training.
— Geoffrey Scarre, Robin Coningham (2012). Appropriating the Past: Philosophical Perspectives on the Practice of Archaeology. Cambridge University Press. p. 168. ISBN 978-0521196062.
