There is an inimitable grace in Virgil's words, and in them principally consists that beauty which gives so inexpressible a pleasure to… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for… — Ledisi Copy Share Image
In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Let us, cautious in diction And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
“Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
But Michael Jackson didn't have perfect diction - He said 'chamone' instead of 'come on'. — will.i.am Copy Share Image
[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] ... for finish, and melody of versification, there is nothing approaching to Miss Barrett in this day, or… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
For the role of a lawyer, I made sure I learnt the correct diction and most importantly I made sure I got… — Gurmeet Choudhary Copy Share Image
“Florid language frequently leads to merry lovemaking when accompanied by the correct diction, syntax, and timing.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
This is form and content and diction and tone and imagination all looking up at the exact same moment: When Molly Tanzer… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means. — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
“A writer need not be bound by flat statement like "It was a rough sea," when verbs like tumble and roil and… — Rebecca McClanahan Copy Share Image
In conducting interviews, my fascination is not only with the content of the conversation, but also the overall delivery of spoken language… — Steve Cosson Copy Share Image
You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every… — Rufus Choate Copy Share Image
Every morning I shall concern myself anew about the boundary Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No And pressing forward honor reality. We… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Men have begun to observe and classify, they turn from creation to Criticism... It is the Fashion to be a wit... one… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
When I became thoroughly acquainted with the Greek and Roman authors, I thought it incumbent upon me to do something towards the… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
“Let us have a language worthy of our world, a democratic style where rich and well-born nouns can roister with some sluttish… — William Gass Copy Share Image
“Most Eugenists are Euphemists. I mean merely that short words startle them, while long words soothe them. And they are utterly incapable… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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