The great error consists in supposing that poetry is an unnatural form of language. We should all like to speak poetry at the moment when we truly live, and if we do not speak it, it is because we have an impediment in our speech. It is not song that is the narrow or artificial thing, it is conversation that is a broken and stammering attempt at song. When we see men in a spiritual extravaganza, like Cyrano de Bergerac, speaking in rhyme, it is not our language disguised or distorted, but our language rounded and made whole.
G.K. ChestertonTags: poetry speech song prose
[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
Gustave FlaubertTags: love music speech madame-bovary
Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: silence speech discretion thoughts indiscretion fair-words
And I saw just the other day, in Mentor, Ohio, where a father told the story of his 8-year-old daughter, whose long battle with leukemia nearly cost their family everything had it not been for the health care reform passing just a few months before the insurance company was about to stop paying for her care.
I had an opportunity to not just talk to the father, but meet this incredible daughter of his. And when he spoke to the crowd listening to that father's story, every parent in that room had tears in their eyes, because we knew that little girl could be our own.
I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which meant that life did not feel like work.
Neil GaimanTags: inspirational writing speech craft
Let justice be done tho the heavens fall.
Michael DavittTags: history speech irish irish-question fenianism michael-davitt special-irish-commission
Even when she was speaking, her soul was in prayer reposing on an unseen support.
George EliotTim Tebow's Dad turned a screw-up into a testimony when a fire to burn weeds in a field got out of control. With his family still smelling like smoke from containing the fire, he conducted a lesson from verses where James compares danger of speech to an out-of-control spark.
Tim TebowTags: humility speech testimony
Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.
Ferdinand de SaussureTags: philosophy speech linguistics
Fuck the lot of you and your hypocritical bullshit. You sit around spouting brotherhood. You don't know the first thing about being a brother. Or being a man. Because a real man sure as hell would never have disrespected a woman the way each and everyone of you have disrespected Maysie.
A. Meredith WaltersTags: speech jordan-levitt
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