The poetry of speech.

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

— Lord Byron

“Poetry's the speech of kings. You're one of those Shakespeare gives the comic bits to: prose! All poetry (even Cockney Keats?) you see 's…

— Tony Harrison

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…

— Herbert Read

“The Quran is the best of companions, being always available, truthful, comforting, trustworthy, and beneficial, it has about it a quality of sweetness. It…

— A'id al-Qarni

A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the…

— Samuel R. Delany

The President [Barack Obama] is very focused on [healthcare]. He, of course, is also writing this speech at high speed. And right coming up…

— Ron Suskind

I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive…

— Jerome Rothenberg

“No Hate Speech Online is a social media netiquette rule. Return hate in kind (ness) for proper netiquette. Love Muslims alike.”

— David Chiles

Anderson sent me to give you this he said. I believe the subtext was kiss and makeup. This time I was sure I made…

— Jenna Black

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished…

— Terry Eagleton

I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.

— Adam Sandler

Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects…

— Amartya Sen

There are certain things you must not say in spite of the fact that supposedly democracy means free speech. No. You are not allowed…

— Chris Eubank Sr

The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean…

— John Searle

Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom…

— Emily Robison