Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.

Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

I had a teacher who stressed for me the importance of diction in terms of... I want to be very careful about how I say this... in terms of supporting one's voice when one is singing. In other words, if you hold on to your words, your voice will pull through for you when you're singing. So be true to your vowels.

Music is the soul of language.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

Prior to going to college, I had a pretty strong accent, and that was one of the things I had to work on a lot. I went to North Carolina School of the Arts; my speech teacher... that was one of the things we really had to work on over the years, and thankfully I think it finally worked.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

My dad taught me that language was a powerful tool.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

Knowing how to dress is an art.

Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.

Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.

By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation: those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan... In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.