For many writers and artists, the central concept of this chapter—expression—defines the very shape of personhood. What are we? We are essentially expressive; we extend beyond ourselves and into the world through our capacity for expressiveness. Accordingly, this chapter is concerned with the link between the worlds of persons and what those persons come to express—what they say and make and write. It is also about the ways we encounter the lives of other people in what we find said or made or written. It investigates how pieces or aspects of human lives, especially inner human lives, become concretized in aesthetic works and how parts of people live in the spaces between us, outside the sequestered interiority of thoughts and feelings. This chapter also explores how aesthetic artifacts have the power to give expression to life with special vividness, force, and extraordinary complexity. How do our selves and souls traverse the things we write and make? These are the broader questions that underlie this series of reflective readings. The segments in this chapter move through texts by Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, John Keats, J. M. W. Turner, Langston Hughes, Jackson Pollock, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.