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oratory poet orators
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator. Ben Jonson
oratory trying
We're trying to keep oratory alive. There is still a place for this. Charles Williams
oratory matter politician
The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth. Aldous Huxley
oratory willpower
In oratory the will must predominate. David Hare
oratory literature savages
Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage. George Saintsbury
oratory firsts action
When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action. Plutarch
oratory speech vacuums
Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. John Kenneth Galbraith
oratory speech firsts
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. Ralph Waldo Emerson
oratory forget forget-him
He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself. Johann Kaspar Lavater
poet invention conscious
Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme. C. S. Lewis
poetry should
Why then we should drop into poetry. Charles Dickens
poet companion whole-life
Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life. David McCullough
poetry qualified
Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can and do use language poetically. Louis MacNeice
poet
I'm a poet first and foremost, before the modelling. Jessica White
poet represent size sound thus universal
The poet should size the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
poet true
The poet does not know and often will never know his true receiver. Eugenio Montale
poetry fruit mute
A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit. Archibald MacLeish
poet clock repeats
A small poet repeats himself like a clock. Austin O'Malley
orators
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.