Subvocalize Reading Quotes & Sayings

Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in the writing of poetry besides the aim to make a poem, of engaging the materials, SHOULD be disappointed. If the poet does not have the chutzpah to jeopardize habituated assumptions and practices, what will be produced will be sleep without dream, a copy of a copy of a copy. — Dean Young

Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen. — Robert Bresson

On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars. — Bruce Willis

But Daughteeeer! — Bisco Hatori

What is life without honor? Degradation is worse than death. — Stonewall Jackson

I was born in a little place called Inverness, MS. — Little Milton

Fish got to swim, birds got to fly
I got to love one man till I die
Can't help lovin' dat man of mine. — Oscar Hammerstein II

Biffi said it was more American on an air force base in Crete than it was in Times Square. — Cathleen Schine

He could not shake the feeling - reportedly common among ghosts - that it was not he but those he haunted whose lives were devoid of matter, sense, future. — Michael Chabon

Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues, a senator drunk on filibuster. I've got Tourette's. My mouth won't quit, though mostly I whisper or subvocalize like I'm reading aloud, my Adam's apple bobbing, jaw muscle beating like a miniature heart under my cheek, the noise suppressed, the words escaping silently, mere ghosts of themselves, husks of empty breath and tone. — Jonathan Lethem

Aspirin and ibuprofen combat inflammation everywhere but the stomach and bowel; there they create inflammation. — Mary Roach

Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love. — Joyce Carol Oates

what they are told when they are told." "Is — T.W. Brown

One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower. — Tom Hodgkinson

Speed, quality, price. Pick any two. — James M. Wallace

I am left alone in the wide world. My own dear family I have buried: one in Rangoon, and two in Amherst. What remains for me but to hold myself in readiness to follow the dear departed to that blessed world, 'Where my best friends, my kindred dwell, where God, my Saviour, reigns.' — Adoniram Judson