Articulation Quote by Tony Harrison Download Open image “Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting.” — Tony Harrison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Articulation Fighting Tied Tongue Tongue tied
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“A tongue is very like a gun, which is why they nearly rhyme. Both can be fired to devastating effect, for good or evil,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd. — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
“Affliction caused by the tongue is worse than that caused by the strike of the blade of a sword.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but it's in… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't poetry address what happened yesterday and be published in the newspaper? — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
I love being on the road with others, with a camera, but also being alone writing poetry. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
“Smokers of the world unite! On t'count o' three, all light up, right? 1-2-3... You've all been cowed. I've changed the law and it's… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
A lot of my activity in the theatre, and even in writing poems, was a kind of retrospective aggro on the English teacher who… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
I hate the anglicanisation of culture, the idea that culture is genteel. It's not genteel. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
Not becoming 'something' scares me the most. I just want to be remembered for something great. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
I think it's the tendency to want to create gods and monotheistic absolutes and absolute certainties that is the continual temptation in human thought… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
There's a kind of despair about whether art can really do anything, but you have to incorporate that despair into the way you work.… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
I really admire the great Japanese artists who could change their name three times in a lifetime. You could get rid of one and… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing. — William Trevor Copy Share Image
In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything I've ever… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the history of… — Susan McClary Copy Share Image
The theoretical recognition of the split-space of enunciation may open the way to conceptualising an international culture, based not on the exoticism of multiculturalism… — Homi K. Bhabha Copy Share Image
Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will… — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
There's a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn't… — John Towner Williams Copy Share Image
The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat. — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
The New Testament writers I think conceive of their inspired Scripture writings as flushing out, bringing to articulation, expounding and so on the climactic… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
For me, places are articulations of 'natural' and social relations, relations that are not fully contained within the place itself. So, first, places are… — Doreen Massey Copy Share Image
By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
