My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine.… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“I knew that my trauma, no matter what it was, was not unique. I knew that pain was the universal driving force… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
“Every spoken word carries great risk. Therefore, it is better to remain silent if one does not know how to talk. Talking… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“English grammar and composition is difficult even for the English, but worse and worse for a Welsh boy. He speaks, reads, writes,… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
“It is not by way of language that I shall transmit what is within me; for it is inexpressible in words. I… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures,… — Bob Edwards Copy Share Image
“A man on his deathbed left instructions For dividing up his goods among his three sons. He had devoted his entire spirit… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I've tried to use my love of music, and spoken word performance to create companion pieces for the book. — Rich Ferguson Copy Share Image
“I wrote too many poems in a language I did not yet know how to speak But I know now it doesn't… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
At the beginning I wasn't really rapping. I had poetry, so it was a spoken word vibe. Then I found beats that… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Candor compels me to admit that I have no conclusive research to support my view that jingles are less persuasive than the… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
“[Science] works! Planes fly. Cars drive. Computers compute. If you base medicine on science, you cure people. If you base the design… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
While the spoken word can travel faster, you cant take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
I think you can perform any poem. But what I believe is that the best examples of spoken word poetry I've ever… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Though I remember, sharply, last things. The last book she read. The last play (and film, and concert, and opera, and art… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Among the many forms of alienation, the most frequent one is alienation in language. If I express a feeling with a word,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
When people see my show, they may not laugh out loud as they do with some of the classic comedians, but they… — Mick Foley Copy Share Image
Avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
“To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“There are two things that cannot be taken back- the sped arrow and the spoken word.” — Jane Casey Copy Share Image
“The power which has always started the greatest religious and political avalanches in history rolling has from time immemorial been the magic… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
