#spoken word

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#ever #founded #his #knows #only

The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word. ↗

— Bob Edwards

#created #different #different things #distract #help

All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#cast #distress #emotions #goddess #great

The unspoken word never does harm. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#harm #never #spoken word #unspoken #word

Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven. ↗

— April Winchell

#children #christmas #dead #everything #fit

Every spoken word arouses our self-will. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#every #our #self-will #spoken #spoken word

I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape. ↗

— Benny Green

#get #hobbies #i #listen #lot

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#faster #hand #home #only #reader

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#environment #first #go #grasp #his

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens. ↗

— Russell Simmons

#doing #getting #got #happens #having