Speak

Famous quotes containing the word speak:

“To speak of sorrow
works upon it
moves it from its
crouched place barring
the way to and from the soul’s hall....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways—to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.”
—Richard M. Nixon (1913–1995)

“they know me,
they help me unravel,
they listen with ears made of conch shells,
they speak back with the wine of the best region.
They are my staff.
They comfort me.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)