Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just… — James Welch Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of New Labour - and Miliband is irredeemably of that species - is that, in the guise of… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
I like to think of the individual words, then you put the word in the sentence, then you have to think about… — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
The only intelligible language in which we converse with one another consists of our objects in their relation to each other. We… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
In my teen years and early twenties I was really interested in this fellaheen worlds that, of course, Kerouac invokes and wanting… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“It's not entirely absurd to think that somewhere in the past of mankind someone, for the first time, did in his mind… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“Words have power, you understand? It is in the nature of our universe. Our library itself distorts time and space on quite… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn't bad... I mean getting people to… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“If Jupiter was in the ascendant when you were born, you are of a jovial disposition; and if you're not jovial but… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
“It is the very nature of language to form rather than inform. When language is personal, which it is at its best,… — Eugene Peterson Copy Share Image
When you are challenging the young, they can come back at you with language of tremendous power and they are no respecters… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
“i do not say 'good-bye.' i believe that's one of the bullshittiest words ever invented. it's not like you're given the choice… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The words we choose can build communities, reunite loved ones, and inspire others. They can be a catalyst for change. However, our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
A book, at the same time, also has to do with what I call a buzz in the head. It's a certain… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand… But until… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Sadly - and I think this is why it's so important that we do this more - I don't have that guiding… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
My poems and prose are not often in direct conversation with each other, but there's so much crossover - everything that comes… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
The only language I feel I'm perfectly fluent in is English. It's the language I grew up studying, thinking in and the… — Jonita Gandhi Copy Share Image
When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Everything, indeed, in a work of art should be unedited,--and even the words, by the manner of grouping them, of shaping them… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
It is clear that everybody interested in science must be interested in world 3 objects. A physical scientist, to start with, may… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things to do is not to speak on screen. In theater it's different because there's a lot of… — Linda Cardellini Copy Share Image
You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone :… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
New technology creates a new marketplace of words, creating totally new words and changing the meaning and application of existing ones. In… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
We are all citizens of one world, we are all of one blood. To hate people because they were born in another… — John Amos Comenius Copy Share Image
There's a convention in English stuff that if something is more than 100 years old, people have to say 'do not' instead… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
“Today, information: pulverized, nonhierarchized, dealing with everything: nothing is protected from information and at the same time nothing is open to reflection… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Our two party platforms were emphatic about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. For the Obama administration to remove this language from… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The way I mainly use the Internet is keeping in touch with poets that live far away. My main interest is contemporary… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
“We think of communication as words. But a screaming child is trying to say something. A tantrum carries a message. Hitting is… — Christopher Page Copy Share Image
Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite… — Tom Wlaschiha Copy Share Image
“The nature of poems Is a matter of words and deeds An intimate encounter of voice In the ache of the heart… — Kendall Dana Lockerman Copy Share Image
