Verbal Quotes

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.

Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.

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

We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

I had some wonderful dreaming meetings. I can't tell you specifically what they've been in the recent months. In the past they've been verbal kinds of messages that he needed to give me. Now they're more dreams of his presence.

I love being verbal in films.

Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy.

Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.