Quotes About Utterance

From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and the power, the purity and height of his utterance may not seldom be the greater because experience here uses the voices of desire.

Guilt wants to cover all the bases, be everywhere at once, reach into the past to tweak, neaten and repair. Guilt like Tourettic utterance flows uselessly, inelegantly from one helpless human to another, contemptuous of perimeters, doomed to be mistaken or refused on delivery.

At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.

The words walked right out of my mouth.

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention? I have given up expecting those last words, whose ring, if they could only be pronounced, would shake both heaven and earth. There is never time to say our last word - the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt. The heaven and earth must not be shaken. I suppose - at least, not by us who know so many truths about either.

He sealed the utterance with that smile of his, as though it had been a door opening into a darkness he had in his keeping.

Oh, Heavens' ejaculated the engineer in a feeble voice.

Such utterance staggers and offends among the listeners. But it also opens vistas of possibility where we had not thought to go and where in fact, we are most reluctant to go.

Prophecy in this context may be understood as a redescription of the public processes of history through which the purposes of Yahweh are given in human utterance.

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

Once again, the expression uttered (in speech or writing) is not the sole or even the primary object of translation when the force of an utterance is what matters, as it always does.

It can be done only by guessing what the context and genre of the utterance are.

the quality of onset determines the quality of the ensuing phonation.

Adam said, 'Christ!' and Danny Hislop, wriggling past said, 'No. Lord Culter, I do declare.

If utterance is denied, the thought lies like a burden on the man. Always the seer is a sayer.

O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.

The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

When words fail to express the exalted sentiments and finer emotions of the human heart, music becomes the sublimated language of the soul, the divine instrumentality for its higher utterance.

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us.

Your say is not yours unless you say it

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.