Famous quotes containing the words external and/or speech:
“Nature predominates over the human will in all works of even the fine arts, in all that respects their material and external circumstances. Nature paints the best part of the picture, carves the best of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Funest philosophers and ponderers,
Their evocations are the speech of clouds.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)