Quotes About Speech

Good philosophy is always hate speech to evil doers.

You will die but the words you speak or spoke, will live forever.

As a bird has the right to sing, so shall every human being have the right to think and express thoughts.

There are things we cannot vocalise because the repercussions of particular thoughts have the power to break lives.

I never speak in silence.

The surest of stubborn silences is not to hold one's tongue but to talk

Censorship: It allows you not to think for yourself.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.

That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.

The poetry of speech.

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry is never speech but always a song.

Revolutions are always verbose.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

Why does Mosley always speak as though he were a feudal landlord abusing tenants who are in arrears with their rent ?

Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

I'm not going to play politics on the floor of the House of Commons.

The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.