“God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.” HumansHeartMightCommonSecretShareHuman NatureSpeechNeighborGrantedFacultyTreasuryRecess Author:Saint Basil
“The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it.” WritingBelieveLyingForceSecretStyleSpeechConsciousVerbsAdjectivesNounsPedigreeParts Of Speech Book:Among my Books, etc Source: Among my Books, etc
“Honest speech does not seek secret places.” DoeSecretHonestHonestySpeechSecret Places Author:St. Jerome
“Happily, and thanks to God, there are orifices through which our inner life constantly escapes, and the soul, like the blood, hath its pores. The mouth is the chief and foremost of these channels which lead the soul out of its invisible sanctuary; it is by speech that man communicates the secret converse which is his real life.” MenRealSoulSecretBloodSpeechMouthsCommunicateReal LifeInvisibleThanksChiefsSanctuaryInner LifeConverses Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
“The secret of understanding poetry is to hear poetry's words as what they are: the full self's most intimate speech, half waking, half dream. You listen to a poem as you might listen to someone you love who tells you their truest day. Their words might weep, joke, whirl, leap. What's unspoken in the words will still be heard. It's also the way we listen to music: You don't look for extractable meaning, but to be moved.” WayLooksStillsSelfDreamMightUnderstandingSecretHalfHeardSpeechJokesMovedIntimatePoetry IsLeapWakingListening To MusicTruestUnspokenOne You LoveSomeone You Love Author:Jane Hirshfield