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• The unspoken word never does harm.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Silence, Doe, Unspoken Words

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• At the end of the day I see myself as a communicator. So any way that I can, any medium, any art form that I can use to communicate the truths of the Lord and scripture and my passion, then I'm going to do it. I don't know, I may do a spoken word piece one day, or I may turnaround and try to write a short story. I don't know, it just depends, but anything artistically that I can use I'll try to do it.

  Tedashii

  Art, Writing, Passion

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• Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.

  Aristotle

  Character, Mind, Three

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• I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of stories and run off at the mouth. I'm a big tangent person.

  Laurie Notaro

  Running, Reading, Stories

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• There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.

  Randeep Hooda

  Silence, Feels, Silence Is

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• The first time I ever performed spoken word poetry in front of a big crowd, it totally failed. It ended, people barely clapped...in retrospect the poem was terrible. And for a while I thought this was something I would never do again. And then I realized that, in my 17-year-old head, that was the worst it could have been. And it wasn't that bad - [because] from there, it could only get better. And I think that failure kind of freed me up to explore and not be afraid of failing again.

  Phil Kay

  Thinking, Years, People

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• Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an essential time-order; a written word is a series of pieces of matter, having an essential space-order.

  Bertrand Russell

  Order, Space, Essentials

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.81, Routledge

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• Human beings do not relate to written words in the same way that they will relate to spoken words. They do not relate to music in the same way that they do to pictures. It's all different parts of our head, different parts of our minds processing this.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mind, Different, Way

  "Neil Gaiman Brings A Multimedia Extravaganza To Carnegie Hall". kunr.org. June 25, 2014.

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• There is an intelligence factor that works with the spoken word. With words, you have to understand meaning and nuances and things like that. You have to be able to relate...but with music it's just music.

  Tommy Chong

  Able, Nuance, Understand Me

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• I verily believe that the kingdom of God advances more on spoken words than it does on essays written and read; on words, that is, in which the present feeling and thought of the teaching mind break into natural and forceful expression.

  Richard Salter Storrs

  Teaching, Believe, Expression

  Richard Salter Storrs (1875). “Conditions of success in preaching without notes, 3 lects”, p.61

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• The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Technology, Space

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.155, University of Toronto Press

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• This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry - which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul.

  Sonja Sohn

  New York, Moving, Careers

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• Color is life, for a world without color seems dead. As a flame produces light, light produces color. As intonation lends color to the spoken word, color lends spiritually realized sound to a form.

  Johannes Itten

  Light, Flames, Color

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• Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.

  Spoken Reasons

  Art, People, Perfect

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• This artistic uprising we had the other night in Washington Square park: there was poetry, there was dance, there was song, there was spoken word; and people left feeling so inspired and so energised. We have to get ourselves out of this syndrome of trauma and being re-traumatised. Art releases this energy. It exposes us to wonder again, and magic again, and ambiguity - all the things we need to really keep going and fighting and resisting in these times.

  Eve Ensler

  Song, Art, Fighting

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• It will be practicable to blot written words which you do not publish; but the spoken word it is not possible to recall.
  [Lat., Delere licebit
  Quod non edideris; nescit vox missa reverti.]

  Horace

  Written Word, Recalls, Publish

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• High school was the first time I ever saw spoken word poetry. The first place I ever performed a poem was at my school, so in some ways it was the nucleus of how it all started. For me I think high school was a period of trying to figure myself out, and poetry was one of the ways I did that, and was a very helpful avenue to try to do that.

  Phil Kay

  School, Thinking, Trying

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• Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense transmutes, and the spoken word winds through the ear's labyrinth into a sense that is no longer the nerve's realm. The written word unfolds behind the eye into the world, world's image, and the imagination sees as the eye cannot see-thoughtfully.

  Dan Beachy-Quick

  Writing, Eye, Air

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• Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind, as you are aware, Watson, but my experience of life has taught me that there are few wives having any regard for their husbands who would let any man's spoken word stand between them and that husband's dead body. Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Husband, Lying, Humorous

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.1192, GENERAL PRESS

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• The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was more amendable, and over time I'd come to see that it was usually your best course of action.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Gone, Way, Saying Nothing

  Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.126, Serpent's Tail

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• Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Stars, Communication, Philosophical

  "Book of Disquietude".

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• As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.

  Athol Fugard

  People, Theatre, Fascination

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• No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is any event entirely predetermined or fated. Rather like the trickster, Raven, who first gave it its current form, the sensuous world is a spontaneous, playful and dangerous mystery in which we participate, an articulate and improvisational field of powers ever responsive to human actions and spoken words.

  David Abram

  Ravens, Events, World

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• Just remember, the language of gesture is more effective than the spoken word. Body language is very powerful. Bring the balance within you and project that balance.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Powerful, Communication, Balance

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• Don't forget that few people are likely to tell more than a small part of the truth: no one tells much of the truth, let alone the whole truth. Spoken words are facts in themselves, whether true or false. When people talk they reveal themselves, whether they're lying or telling the truth.

  Halldór Laxness

  Lying, People, True Or False

  Halldór Laxness (2005). “Under the Glacier”, Vintage Books

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