“Your voice is wild and simple.
You are untranslatable
Into any one tongue.”

“I have seldom known a man cunning with his brush who was not simple with his tongue; or, indeed, any skill in particular that was not allied to general stupidity.”

“… But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is not tamed, it will tun wild and cause you grief.”

“You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.”

“My head is full of fire
and grief and my tongue
runs wild, pierced
with shards of glass.”

“The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.”

“I have heard that voice many a time when asleep
and, what is strange, I understood more or less
an order or an appeal in an unearthly tongue:
:day draws near
another one
do what you can.”

“Learn their lesson, that if you would teach people you first must capture their interest with news; that your service rather than your sermons must be your claim upon their attention; that what you say must be simple, and brief, and above all sincere — the unmistakable voice of true regard and affection.”

“It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.”

“Teach your tongue to say "I do not know" and you will progress.”