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«The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.»
«To be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds»
«The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
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Relationships
| Keywords:
call attention, dancer, fan, speaker, The Fan, toastmaster
«The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Kindness
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communicated, lay, lay in, lips, longest, remembered, so far, speaker, Speaker of, unsaid, unsay
«When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb's bleat.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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artificial, bleat, bleating, brute, contracting, etc., etc, first of all, free expression, grammar, hypercritical, interjection, lamb, lawless, mother tongue, particles, poetic, quarreling, requisite, Rules of, speaker, stretching, truest
«The traveler to the United States will do well to prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.»
«There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.»
«When a subject is highly controversial... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
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audience, conclusions, controversial, drawing, highly, idiosyncrasies, idiosyncrasy, limitations, observe, prejudices, speaker, Speaker of, subject, To Tell the Truth
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