“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 double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn't a stone in a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The first spoken word poem I ever wrote was when I was 14 and I wrote it because I was accidentally signed… — Sarah Kay 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
Color is life, for a world without color seems dead. As a flame produces light, light produces color. As intonation lends color… — Johannes Itten Copy Share Image
Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
Moreover, the whole purpose of God's mighty acts is to bring man to know Him by faith; and Scripture knows no foundation… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
“Like us, animals feel love, joy, fear and pain, but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to speak… — Sylvia Dolson 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
Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
“[M]ay not literature (and, in particular, fiction) be considered a desperate and permanently thwarted effort to produce a unique form of expression?… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share Image
In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The spoken word has come to dominate many Protestant forms of worship: the words of prayers, responsive readings, Scripture, the sermon, and… — Marcus J. Borg Copy Share Image
“who did I think we were. who did I think I could make you. this is the oldest mistake, to confuse wanting… — Marty McConnell Emily Kagan Trenchard Copy Share Image
My falling in love with spoken word poetry definitely came out of that time period where all the adults around me were… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
Writing wasn't just a form of expression. It was a form of pathology by embarking on spoken word over and over and… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
There was something about stand-up that music wouldn't give me, which was my love of the spoken word and the mercurial tendency… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
“The spoken word and the written - there is an astonishing gulf between them. There is a way of turning sentences that… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough; hence the institution of gongs and drums... banners and… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
But perhaps, after so much talk and fighting, unspoken words do create a silence in whose gentleness the survivors of good and… — Miljenko Jergovic Copy Share Image
This won't look so good in my obituary," Schaffer said dolefully. There was a perceptible edge of strain under the lightly-spoken words."Gave… — Alistair Maclean Copy Share Image
The poem springs from the half spoken words of the patient… When asked, how I have for so many years continued an… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
I didn't start writing music until I was a sophomore in college. I would steal my roommate's guitar and sit on the… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
Don't forget that few people are likely to tell more than a small part of the truth: no one tells much of… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken,… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
I've never not been pleased with one of my albums. I figure because it's spoken word, there will be people who relate… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
“...We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter. We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun.… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
“...We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter. We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun.… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
It's not a natural translation, transition, to take something from stage to screen. Onstage your action is communicated through the spoken word… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
When we try to describe one person to another …, what do we say? Not usually how or what that person ate,… — Cleanth Brooks Copy Share Image
“A good writer is also an avid reader. A good reader is also a vivid dreamer. A good dreamer is also a… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
At the end of the day I see myself as a communicator. So any way that I can, any medium, any art… — Tedashii Copy Share Image
As a young woman, I experienced high school and heartbreak, and the music I started to write was a little bit more… — Gabriella Wilson Copy Share Image
Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently,… — Will Hermes Copy Share Image
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
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