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Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. -- Ambrose Bierce
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses. -- Henry Williamson
God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life. -- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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. -- Rita Dove
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. -- Earl Browder
An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived. -- John Searle
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. -- Maria Weston Chapman
Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing. -- Lucy Larcom
The obvious merits utterance. Character is f**king pertinent. -- Al Swearengen
You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals. -- Charles Spurgeon
No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence. -- Lord Acton
As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name. -- Sarada Devi
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite. -- Thomas Carlyle
Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right. . . . That flawed utterance is dearer to God! -- Rumi
The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance. -- Oswald Chambers
As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection. -- Oscar Wilde
I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical in Nature this is what I am looking for. It is absolutely necessary for me to find it somewhere. -- Oscar Wilde
No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance. -- Alan Bullock
At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. I want to believe there are geniuses scheming to astonish the rest of us, just for the pleasure of it. -- Marilynne Robinson
Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognized unless they are believed to have come from heaven as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them. -- John Calvin
Utterance is the evidence of foregone study. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction. -- Franz Kafka
Utterance" Sitting over words Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing Not far Like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark The echo of everything that has ever Been spoken Still spinning its one syllable Between the earth and silence -- W. S. Merwin
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance. -- Seamus Heaney
The wrong Democratic reaction to a stupid Republican utterance is to play hurt. -- Hooman Majd
From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America. -- Natasha Trethewey
The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play. -- Helen Vendler
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. -- Saint Basil
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. -- Thomas Lynch
A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
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. -- Lady Jane Grey
Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and the power, the purity and height of his utterance may not seldom be the greater because experience here uses the voices of desire. -- George Edward Woodberry
The gay bunting erects his white crest, and gives utterance to the joy he feels in the presence of his brooding mate; the willow grouse on the rock crows his challenge aloud; each floweret, chilled by the night air, expands its pure petals; the gentle breeze shakes from the blades of grass the heavy dewdrops. -- John James Audubon
Prayer is a sacred-utterance to God. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent. -- Seneca the Younger
Stick to what's in front of you - idea, action, utterance. -- Marcus Aurelius
God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha. -- Heinrich Heine
The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos - resonant utterance or word. -- Marshall McLuhan
A request not to worry is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance. -- Mignon G. Eberhart
Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. -- Mark Twain
I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. -- Marilynne Robinson
It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends. -- George Eliot
No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. -- Abraham Lincoln
Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance. -- Kenneth Clark
At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable. -- Rabindranath Tagore
The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability. -- Allan Sekula
Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures.. -- Dan Sperber
He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance. -- Chanakya
nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I compose music because I must give expression to my feelings, just as I talk because I must give utterance to my thoughts. -- Sergei Rachmaninoff
Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart; Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape. -- John Milton
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. -- Stanley Forman Reed
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. -- Elias Lyman Magoon
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. -- Richard M. Weaver
I have found in the Bible words for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterance for my hidden griefs and pleadings for my shame and feebleness. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Let not the tongue give utterance to the evil that is in thine heart, but command thy tongue to be silent until good shall prevail over evil. -- Brigham Young
A constant discomfort derives from this--writing these sentences, or any other for that matter--I am writing an ad for the war. With that, every utterance about freedom finishes. -- Semezdin Mehmedinovi?
Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article. -- Alasdair MacIntyre
These were choice documents to me... They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my mind, and died away for want of utterance. -- Frederick Douglass
When speech is given to a soul holy and true, time, and its dome of ages, becomes as a mighty whispering-gallery, round which the imprisoned utterance runs, and reverberates forever. -- James Martineau
When words fail to express the exalted sentiments and finer emotions of the human heart, music becomes the sublimated language of the soul, the divine instrumentality for its higher utterance. -- Hans Hinrich Wendt
With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people's satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of all their previous explanations and understandings. -- Robert Farrar Capon
A voice is in the wind I do not know A meaning on the face of the high hills Whose utterance I cannot comprehend. A something is behind them: that is God. -- George MacDonald
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. -- Marshall McLuhan
O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind. -- Herman Melville
Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language itself is one of the chief considerations of the Phaedrus. -- Richard M. Weaver
The point about L-O-V-E is that we hate the word. Because we vulgarize it. It should be taboo, forbidden from utterance for many years, till we've found a new and a better idea. -- Larry Kramer
If there be any one principle more widely than another confessed by every utterance, or more sternly than another imprinted on every atom of the visible creation, that principle is not liberty, but law. -- John Ruskin
For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know; -- William Shakespeare
We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light. -- George Eliot

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