Speak

Famous quotes containing the word speak:

“Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen to themselves speak. If they did listen, they would know that they are nothing and then they would no longer be able to speak.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)

“Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.”
—Augusto Roa Bastos (b. 1917)

“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)