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Recitation of the Qur'an without contemplation and thought is futile. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Poetry comes alive to me through recitation. -- Natalie Merchant
The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read. -- Lascelles Abercrombie
A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth. -- Frank Luntz
The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking. -- Robert Anton Wilson
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
There are many reasons our prayers may lack power. Sometimes they become routine. Our prayers become hollow when we say similar words in similar ways over and over so often that the words become more of a recitation than a communication. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Poetry comes alive to me through recitation." -- Natalie Merchant
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read." -- Lascelles Abercrombie
There is no surer means of calling down God's blessing upon the family than the daily recitation of the Rosary. -- Pope Pius XII
The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs. -- David Guterson
A twinge at the edge of her lips and she continued, the soft, slow lilt of recitation: "Ancient walls that sing the distant hours. -- Kate Morton
A twinge at the edge of her lips and she continued, the soft, slow lilt of recitation: "Ancient walls that sing the distant hours." -- Kate Morton
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A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every act, nay every thought of people. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I started reciting my own poems in public, I worried that it would seem too theatrical, but now I find recitation very natural, because it allows me to address audiences directly. -- James Arthur
Don't they feed you at Navarre house?""They throw out some gruel between the indoctrination sessions and propaganda films. Then we're off marching around the grounds and the recitation of sonnets to Celina's loveliness." -- Chloe Neill
You, Celaena Sardothien, are charged with the deaths of the following people..." And then he began a long recitation of all those lives she'd taken. The brutal story of a girl who was now gone." -- Sarah J. Maas

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