Adrienne Rich Quotes, Art Quotes, Voice Quotes

In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it's the art that reintegrates words, speech, voice, breath, music, bodily tempo, and the powers of the imagination.

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship

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So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.

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And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.

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They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.

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Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.

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There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.

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Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.

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And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.

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A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

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Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.

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Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.

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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

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Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.

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The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles of cycles of generations that have lived.

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Opinion crowns with an imperial voice.

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To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people.

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