Best Recitation Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“No matter how you are taught by your teacher about how to recite a poem, it is impossible to wear your teacher's smiling face to the stage. You got to change your own face into a smiling one!”

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Book:Shaping the dream

Source: Shaping the dream

“Campus Shirt sleeves half out of the jeans, Eyes grounding the green while looking All around for Christmas nights. Blue sounds of church bells ringing On morning streets and alleys Are rewritten in archways beneath. The campus is clear of recitation, And the steps lead to none other than doors That keep opening to New Year’s hope.”

Hope Streets Green Christmas Bells New Year Campus Alleys Recitation Archways

Author:Laura Chouette

“Like song or dance, poetry needs to be experienced in performance before it can be fully understood.”

Poetry Song Dance Poetry Quotes Performance Recitation

Book:Poetry as Enchantment

Source: Poetry as Enchantment

“The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs.”

Needs Children Individual Classroom Passive Status Quo Homeschooling Recitation Memorization

Book:Family matters: why homeschooling makes sense

Source: Family matters: why homeschooling makes sense

“Recitation of the Qur'an without contemplation and thought is futile.”

Contemplation Recitation

Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib

“With this recitation of paraphernalia and detritus, O'Brien manages to encapsulate the experience of an army and of a particular war, of a mined and booby-trapped landscape, of cold nights and hot days, of soaking monsoons and rice paddies, and of the possibility of being shot, like Ted Lavender, suddenly and out of nowhere: not only in the middle of a sentence but in the midst of a subordinate clause.”

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Author:Francine Prose

“There is no surer means of calling down God's blessing upon the family than the daily recitation of the Rosary.”

Mean Christian Calling Blessing Rosary Holy Rosary Praying The Rosary Recitation

Author:Pope Pius XII

“Don't go into Ramadan having hurt anyone without seeking their forgiveness. The last thing you'd want on the day of judgment is to find that your entire Ramadan with all of its quran recitation, fasting, taraweeh prayers, laylatul qadr, etc. went completely to waste because your pride stopped you from saying “I'm sorry”. With that being said, I'm sorry if I've written, said, or done anything to offend you. Please find it in your heart to forgive and make dua that Allah grants me guidance and sincerity.”

“Two opposing forces inhabit the poem: one of elevation or up-rooting, which pulls the word from the language: the other of gravity, which makes it return. The poem is an original and unique creation, but it is also reading and recitation: participation. The poet creates it; the people, by recitation, re-create it. Poet and reader are two moments of a single reality.”

Source: The Bow and the Lyre: The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History

“We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods. We cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of day by the sun. It is well if we can swim and skate. We are afraid of a horse or a cow, of a dog, of a cat, of a spider. Far better was the Roman rule to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing.”

Source: The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Comedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids today", all those old-fashioned themes - or, if it's deeper, and somewhat more thoughtful, about social imbalance and inequities, and the folly of human behavior. It's usually a complaint.”

“When I started reciting my own poems in public, I worried that it would seem too theatrical, but now I find recitation very natural, because it allows me to address audiences directly.”

Seems Natural My Own Audience Worried Addresses Theatrical Reciting Recitation

Author:James Arthur

“Palestinian society is filled with poetry, but not experimental poetry. The Palestinian poetry that people know is not the modernist experimentations, it's certain kinds of poetry that lends itself to recitation and song and things like that.”

People Knows Kind Certain Song Filled Palestinian Experimentation Recitation

Author:Elliott Colla

“I've translated two of Bae's novels, A Greater Music and Recitation, which are coming from Open Letter and Deep Vellum in October and January respectively. A Greater Music is a semi-autobiographical book centred on a Korean writer moving to Berlin, learning to live and even write in a foreign language.”

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Author:Deborah Smith

“The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.”

Picks Function Theology Pockets Unspeakable Recitation

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“A twinge at the edge of her lips and she continued, the soft, slow lilt of recitation: "Ancient walls that sing the distant hours.”

Hours Wall Lips Ancient Edges Recitation

Book:The Distant Hours: A Novel

Source: The Distant Hours: A Novel

“In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.”

Mean Past Night Speak Felt Space Irony Rescue Amusement Reserved Space Between Recitation

Book:White Noise

Source: White Noise

“Ageing destroys youth, sickness destroys health, degeneration of life destroys all excellent qualities and death destroys life. Even if you are a great runner, you cannot run away from death. you cannot stop death with your wealth, through your magic performances or recitation of mantras or even medicines. Therefore, it is wise to prepare for your death.”

Ifs Running Death Wealth Quality Wise Magic Dying Youth Performances Medicine Excellent Sickness Running Away Runners Ageing Mantras Degeneration Recitation

Author:Dalai Lama

“I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire to communicate, to organize experience, to tell tales that dramatize the adventures which readers might have had. I have been that ancient man who sat by the campfire at night and regaled the hunters with imaginative recitations about their prowess. The job of an apple tree is to bear apples. The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.”

Source: The World Is My Home: A Memoir

“But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.”

Important Achieve Difficulty Recitation

Author:Lascelles Abercrombie

“Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.”

Alive Recitation

Author:Natalie Merchant

“A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.”

Ifs Stories Dry Compelling Recitation

Author:Frank Luntz

“Do not be fooled by one who recites the Qurân. His recitation is but speech – but look to those who act according to it.”

Looks Speech Fooled Recitation

Author:Umar

“Have you not often met poor old women who are most faithful to the pious recitation of the Rosary? You also must do all that you can to recite it with fervour. Get right down, at the feet of Jesus: it is a good thing to make oneself small in the presence of so great a God.”

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Author:Columba Marmion

“A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every act, nay every thought of people.”

People Heart Felt Prayer Lips Yearning Recitation Heart Felt

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.”

Firsts Meant To Be Epic Recitation

Author:Lascelles Abercrombie