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“Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.”

Speak Taste Judgment Microscopes Taste And Judgment

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each taste, to each particular constitution.”

Looks Spirit Speak Beauty Particular Taste Thousand Constitution Adapted

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions.”

Thinking Should Speak Wish Opinion Taste Endeavour

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“You who are dead ... tonight you will disport yourselves for my pleasure. Food and wine will pass between your dead lips, though you will not taste it. Your dead stomachs will hold it within you, while your dead feet take the measure of a dance. Your dead mouths will speak words that will have no meaning to you, and you will embrace one another without pleasure. You will sing for me if I wish it. You will lie down again when I will it.... Let the revelry begin.”

Ifs Lying Speak Wish Pleasure Feet Taste Mouths Wine Embrace Lips Tonight Within You Food And Wine Revelry

Author:Roger Zelazny

“There is one way by which a strolling player may be ever secure of success; that is, in our theatrical way of expressing it, to make a great deal of the character. To speak and act as in common life is not playing, nor is it what people come to see; natural speaking, like sweet wine, runs glibly over the palate and scarcely leaves any taste behind it; but being high in a part resembles vinegar, which grates upon the taste, and one feels it while he is drinking.”

Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: The bee. Essays. Unacknowledged essays. Prefaces, introductions, etc

“Look not thou on beauty's charming; Sit thou still when kings are arming; Taste not when the wine-cup glistens; Speak not when the people listens”

People Looks Stills Speak Kings Taste Wine Cups Charming Tact Glisten

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“we shall know that we have begun to speak true by an increased hunger for true-speaking; we shall have the whole hunger only after we have given ourselves the first taste of it.”

Knows Firsts Whole Truth Speak Given Taste Hunger

Author:Laura Riding

“We also write to heighten our own awareness of life... We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection... We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it...to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth. We write to expand our world when we feel strangled, or constricted, or lonely... When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking... I feel I lose my fire and my color.”

World Feels Writing Moments Able Speak Loses Teach Records Fire Our Lives Journey Awareness Color Taste Lonely Our World Labyrinth Shrinking Awareness Of Life

Author:Anais Nin

“So much of what I am doing in my fiction is just trying to get into interesting places in terms of language or form, places that don't bore me. And this happens via hundreds of quick micro-decisions that are done "to taste," so to speak. So the experience is one of groping toward that interesting place - trying to leap away from anything that seems boring, or about which I don't have strong opinions. Essentially trying to avoid that moment where, devoid of any strong feeling, I start conceptualizing.”

“When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty clothes of everyday, and put on the robes of court and palace, and in this graver dress I enter the antique courts of the ancients and am welcomed by them, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, and for which I was born. And there I make bold to speak to them and ask the motives of their actions, and they, in their humanity, reply to me. And for the space of four hours I forget the world, remember no vexation, fear poverty no more, tremble no more at death; I pass indeed into their world.”

“This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek.”

Writing Looks Play Running Faith Speak Sin Walks Laughing Cry Praying Taste Draws Dare Smell Active Circles Experiments Scream Bows Provoking Repent Verbs Hide And Seek Emote

Book:Leap

Source: Leap

“You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable fire, Made from your heap of dying ash. Let apes and children praise your art, If their admiration’s to your taste, But you’ll never speak from heart to heart, Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.”

Ifs Way Feels Heart Children Art Made Soul Together Speak Simple Space Forever Fire Dying Taste Praise Cooking Miserable Admiration Ashes Apes Scrap Stew Heart To Heart Simple Ways

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Fireheart dashed to the warrior's side. Cloudtail was standing stiff-legged, every hair in his pelt on end as if he were facing an enemy. His eyes were fixed on the limp heap of tabby fur huddled at his paws. "Why, Fireheart?" Cloudtail wailed. "Why her?" Fireheart knew, but rage and grief made it hard to speak. "Because Tigerstar wants the pack to get a taste of cat blood," he rasped. The dead cat lying in front of them was Brindleface.”

Ifs Want Made Ends Hard Eye Lying Speak Sides Grief Enemy Blood Fronts Hair Taste Standing Cat Rage Made It Warrior Fixed His Eyes Packs Fur Paws Why Her Tigerstar

Author:Erin Hunter