#verbal

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#become #goes #immediate #like #music

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

#beauty #difficulty #gravest #important #making

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure. ↗

— Rita Dove

#end #geared #only #play #pleasure

On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#condemn #embrace #equality #hand #immigration

For a number of years I was relentlessly pursued by 10 to 15 men, almost daily. Spat at, verbally abused. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#daily #i #men #number #pursued

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. ↗

— George Orwell

#bring #chaos #connected #decay #end

Our first experience of life is primarily felt in the *body.* ... We know ourselves in the security of those who hold us and gaze upon us. It's not heard or seen or thought it's felt. That's the original knowing. ↗

— Richard Rohr

#body-and-mind #body-image #body-language #body-mind #identity