There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper...
Criss JamiTags: imagination words learning poetry writing vision silence stories literature expression creativity emotion skill gift development deaf paper silent blind master hearing mute gifted building-up compression exceptional
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
Dejan StojanovicTags: wisdom poetry philosophy literature poets emptiness quotes voices hearing echoes hear poetry-quotes returning literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic the-sun-watches-the-sun
...it's merely writing, but you have to adjust your ear – I speak quietly – I sob – I whisper
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Tags: writing-advice hearing
And the blind man said to the deaf man, "Do you see what I hear?
Wayne Gerard TrotmanTags: seeing blindness hearing deafness
While still practising law, he'd run a hearse-rental agency. Then, later, he'd bought into a handkerchief factory in Baker Park. Their most famous innovation was the funeral hankerchief, a plain white cotton handkerchief with a black border. Not long afterwards he patented the first black-edged tissue. He'd made millions, apparently, though nobody knew what he'd done with the money. His only extravagance had been to install an elevator in the house, so he could move between floors without getting out of his wheelchair.
'So what did he mean about hearing money?' Jed asked.
'It's his factory across the river. He claims he can hear the money being made.
Tags: money hearing funeral-handkerchief funeral-tissue hearse
Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears don’t have lids that can instinctively close against the words uttered, they can’t hide from what they sense they’re about to hear, it’s always too late.
Javier MaríasTags: understanding vulnerability listening hearing
Eyes are a deaf man’s ears. Ears are a blind man’s eyes.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: eyes deaf sight blind hearing ear
You’re going to listen to me, and for once you’re going to hear what I say and not read between lines that aren’t there.
Genna RulonTags: relationships assumptions listen listening lovers truths hearing
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