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Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by poetics after its flight is over.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Politics is a lot like sex - if you want something, you have to ask for it, if they're not doing it right you've got to speak up and show them and if you still don't get what you want, then there is nothing wrong with doing it yourself.

Pop culture has none of the vibrancy that you find in the folk culture, where people speak directly to their own experience in the human condition.

Practice, practice, practice in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practice in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.

Prayer is the opening of the soul to God so that he can speak to us.

Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.

Prayer is you speaking to God. Meditation is allowing the spirit to speak to you.

Products should speak for themselves, and marketing should support that.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

Put me up in front of a million people and ask me to speak. I'll flop. But put me behind my drums and I'll always go with it.

Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables.

Question with boldness, hold to the truth, and speak without fear.

Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law.

Recently an actor asked me to teach him how to speak fast. Wasn't I once criticised for speaking too fast? Now they're doing it my way.

Reason speaks and feeling bites

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

Regardless of what we understand or do not understand, we are what we speak. That's how we are known.

Remarriage is or is not approved in shastra; I have no authority to speak on this subject. But I surely cannot go on without saying this much, that remarriage has helped a great deal in stopping crime in Fiji.

Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

Remember that the tongue speaks only what is in the heart.

Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him.

Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.

Revelation has not ceased. The Heavens are not closed. God speaks to prophets today, and He will speak to you.

Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.

Scientists are scientists. They're not really in a position to speak clearly on the moral dimensions, and they're not really comfortable doing that.

Seeds carry life from generation to generation without end. Through the seeds speak the voices of the ancestors. Each time we plant a seed, we become ancestors for the generations to come.

Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot of businesswomen that speak on there. I find them extremely inspiring.

Select such subjects that your pupils cannot walk out without seeing them. Train your pupils to be observers, and have them provided with the specimens about which you speak. If you can find nothing better, take a house-fly or a cricket, and let each one hold a specimen and examine it as you talk.

Self, listen for moment, I will speak to you.

Serious numbers will speak to us always.

She is stunned that in this town there are no sidewalks to speak of, no streetlights, no public transportation, no stores for miles at at a time.

Silence is the only language god speaks.

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.

Silence is death. If you speak, you die. If you are silent, you die. So speak, and die.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.

Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.

Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.

Smile often. Speak gently. Be kind.

Resounding…with wit, courage, and compassion. Skinny will speak to everyone who has ever felt invisible or unlovable.

'Rights' are granted; 'duties' are enforced. To speak of rights and duties is to think in terms of authority.

Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self.

Say as you think and speak it from your souls.

Sci-Fi is incredibly challenging and has its own language. I have to speak its language; it's not going to learn mine.

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.