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#verbal

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #verbal




A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it. But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target. So does gossip.


Vera Nazarian


#boomerang #cause #circle #effect #gossip

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.


Allen Tate


#besides #deal #dreams #great #great deal

I had some wonderful dreaming meetings. I can't tell you specifically what they've been in the recent months. In the past they've been verbal kinds of messages that he needed to give me. Now they're more dreams of his presence.


Judy Collins


#dreaming #dreams #give #give me #had

To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.


Gary Lucas


#i #i do #idioms #make #rhythms

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.


Marya Mannes


#articulate #great #lovers #really #road

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.


Herbert Marcuse


#applying #arsenal #concept #establishment #expressions

To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.


Dejan Stojanovic


#cleanliness #dejan-stojanovic #fresh-air #literature #literature-quotes

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.


W. H. Auden


#become #goes #immediate #like #music

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.


Lascelles Abercrombie


#beauty #difficulty #gravest #important #making

I mean, I guess I realized subconsciously that this is what I should be doing before I realized it, consciously. Verbally, I don't think I had committed to it, even though I was driving everywhere, every night, just trying to get on stage.


Todd Barry


#committed #consciously #doing #driving #even






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