Quotes About Communication

Maybe every talk about poetry is a defense of poetry...

Alternatively, we could say that voice embodies, not any set of particular facts, but the presence of a self, a personality or a sensibility.

In a world where, as one poet says, "people speak to each other mostly for profit," it is exhilarating to listen to a voice that is practicing disclosure without seeking advantage. That is intimate.

O'Hara famously said that a poem was something one wrote instead of making a phone call to a friend, and his poems are indeed as conversational and friendly as phone calls.

You speak differently to your four-year-old daughter than you do to the bank manager.

our quality of life is the quality of communication

JOE: You said my wife. And I want to know, is she— PRIOR: TALK TO HER YOURSELF, BULLWINKLE! WHAT DO I LOOK LIKE A MARRIAGE COUNSELOR?

Speak then, dear lady. I am a field of corn." "Field of corn?" "All ears.

I've been writing poems since I was sixteen. Back then, poems were an obvious release for all the frustrations and anxieties associated with adolescence. Mostly, they were a way for me to impress girls, even though I never remember any girls being impressed.

How do you build trust? Through relationships, good decision making, consistency, and leadership.

What's your name?'Leon said, when waht he meant was - may I love you for ever? And she told him.

The paradox is that when you can get into right versus wrong bickering in personal relationships -- even if you believe you have won -- you have lost.

Truthful hyperbole' is a contradiction in terms. It's a way of saying, 'It's a lie, but who cares?' 

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.

Language is a piss poor attempt at telepathy is what it is. We try to put our thoughts into each other's heads through language...But half the intended meaning gets lost in the transmission, and the other half is filtered through existing assumptions. Everything is a half truth! That's the whole problem! You can't understand me through the smog of your presumptions and prejudices. Multiply that six billion times and you'll begin to understand the desperation of our global situation

The fall of humanity was the fall from the actual to the symbolic. Language abstracts us from the real world; keeping us from direct, intuitive perception. Words, like the ego, are merely guides. Don't mistake them for the real thing. Pull aside the filthy curtains of the social. Language makes an enigma of simple existence; it obscures the true nature of reality and of your self.

But sense or nonsense, that which motivates the plane of language cannot be resisted any more than that which motivates the plane of life.

Ah, Rosellini, el médico guapo y serio que se había enamorado perdidamente de ella y no se atrevía a decir con los labios lo que proclamaban a gritos sus ojos!

No le interesa hablar con los humanos, porque las conversaciones que mantiene con los extraterrestres son mucho más interesantes e instructivas.

Los espejos, como muchas personas, tienen respuestas distintas para las mismas preguntas, según los casos. [...] Ella era la misma, pero el espejo no. Y era éste quien le hablaba, como si dijera: " Estás muy mejorada desde la última vez que te vi.

Books don't need to be published," Lars Högström said. "The main thing is that they should be written.

Och jag påpekade att huvudparten av vår tids olyckor har vållats av läsning och skrivning. De kemiska formlerna. Den genetiska koden. Partiprogrammen. Krigsförklaringarna. Myndigheterna. Atombomben.

When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.

I don't see music as working.