There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.

Stick to what's in front of you - idea, action, utterance.

I'm not going to critique every utterance of the president.

God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few.

The obvious merits utterance. Character is f**king pertinent.

Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent.

You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.

In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.

Terrorism is in many, many ways the final utterance of voices unheard.

Have gentle utterances that will inspire a superior longing for all time.

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

The wrong Democratic reaction to a stupid Republican utterance is to play hurt.

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha.

A request not to worry is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.

The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos - resonant utterance or word.

I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

Often your utterances and expressions of your face leak out the secrets of your hidden thoughts.

From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

There is no way to use non-Christian language and logic to arrive at Christian utterances, conclusions, and behavior.

The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.

Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.

Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.

Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.

The kernel, the soul - let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances - is plagiarism.

It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.

When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like flowers in a vase.

Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct does not make you other than you are.

A fatwa is not a diktat, it's not binding. To turn the utterance of a non-entity into a fatwa and then talk about it endlessly really gets on my nerves.

All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

True emotions and sincere words never perish. The great heart of humanity gladly receives and embalms every true utterance of the humblest of its offspring.

Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate.

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.

I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.

Every legislative limitation upon utterance, however valid, may in a particular case serve as an inroad upon the freedom of speech which the Constitution protects.

The realization that just as no action is really indifferent, so no utterance is without its responsibility introduces, it is true, a certain strenuosity into life.

In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground.

Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.

Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.

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