Prose--it might be speculated--is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably artic...ulate and social, a shared language, the voice of "communication"; the other is private, allusive, teasing, sly, idiosyncratic as the spider's delicate web, a kind of witchcraft unfathomable to ordinary minds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the s...prings of wonder. The communication by the glance is in the greatest part not subject to the control of the will. It is the bodily symbol of identity with nature. We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self, and the eyes will not lie, but make a faithful confession what inhabitant is there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
See, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, ...but will proceed no further.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O my Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor even now that you have spoken to your servant; but I am slow of spe...ech and slow of tongue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do not be discouraged, if in a thousand instances you find your kindness rejected and wronged, your good evil-spoken of, and the h...and you extend for the relief of others, cast insultingly away; the benevolence which cannot outlive these trials of its purity and strength, is not like the self-sacrifice of him, who went about doing good.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Weep bitterly, and make great moan, and use lamentation, as he is worthy, and that a day or two, lest thou be evil spoken of: and ...then comfort thyself for thy heaviness. For of heaviness cometh death, and the heaviness of the heart breaketh strength.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... whatever men do or know or experience can make sense only to the extent that it can be spoken about. There may be truths beyon...d speech, and they may be of great relevance to man in the singular, that is, to man in so far as he is not a political being, whatever else he may be. Men in the plural, that is, men in so far as they live and move and act in this world, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and to themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »