Quotes About Voices

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.

Women who have been disappeared by violence are howling. The voices of disappeared women are echoing. I sing with these voices.

England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.

Happy World Poetry Day: 'The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.

We spent time on Burma and the need for the military regime there to understand that they shouldn't fear the voices of people. And yet they do.

Filter all negative voices. But retain the positive.

I have a need of silence and of stars. Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed. The silken sound of whirled infinity Is lost in voices shouting to be heard…

At these words, the fathers of the fifty boys cried out aloud; the mothers repeated their exclamations an octave higher; whilst the rest, without knowing the cause, soon drowned the voices of both, with still louder lamentations of their own.

When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still.

O SWEET everlasting Voices, be still; Go to the guards of the heavenly fold And bid them wander obeying your will, Flame under flame, till Time be no more; Have you not heard that our hearts are old, That you call in birds, in wind on the hill, In shaken boughs, in tide on the shore? O sweet everlasting Voices, be still.

Ancient of Days, who sittest throned in glory,To thee all knees are bent, all voices pray.

Although this explains the mysterious way Meloux seemed to have known he was coming, Cork still understands that the old Mide has a gift for such forewarnings. Meloux once explained it as a communication with nature that Cork himself could nurture if he was so inclined. "It is not a secret language," the Mide had said. "You need to quiet all the other voices in your head and listen.

At that time, American radio was a cauldron if impassioned voices—live preachers, talk-show hosts, and salesmen. The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you.

That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts.

It isn't a bad thing to hear voices... but you mustn't for a minute imagine that all is wise that comes to you out of the night world.

God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead.

In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable.

All inspiration comes from a higher power. The body is a shell. The creative spot is from God - You hear voices, everybody does. When you get older, you refer to it as intuition.

God is wild; I am tame....Night falls and an age ends....We call and are answered through the thick foliage, by voices too strange to be our own.

Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.

There's no such thing as good voices. Because there's no such thing as bad voices. There are only good actors and bad actors.

It feels kind of good to be [on Sundance]. There is a sense of unification and community and voices rising together, and that all feels good.

Normally, the opposition gets more media space and even the people find it interesting to listen to voices against the government of the day.