“One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.”
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Hart Crane7
American writer 1899–1932Related quotes
“That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.”
Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Speech in the United States House of Representatives (12 January 1848)
1840s
Context: Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can may revolutionize and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit.
Friedrich Nietzsche book Beyond Good and Evil
Beyond Good and Evil, translated by Marianne Cowan [Henry Regnery Company, 1955, p. 139]; Jenseits von Gut und Böse [Philipp Reclam, Stuttgart, 1988, p. 130]
Martin de Maat (1949–2001) American theatre director
A Conversation with Martin de Maat (1998)
Context: The base of the work is one of individuals believing in themselves, trusting themselves in the moment and being accepting of themselves and the people around them. In order to improvise in front of an audience, you have to be accepting, involved in the moment and courageous. Those issues, when transferred over to general communication, makes the communication richer and helps in all areas of life.
“When no idea seems right, the right one must seem wrong.”
Marvin Minsky (1927–2016) American cognitive scientist
Music, Mind, and Meaning (1981)
Coretta Scott King (1927–2006) American author, activist, and civil rights leader. Wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Source: My Life with Martin Luther King Jr., Revised Edition (1969/1993), Ch. 6
Source: Dying Earth (1950-1984), Cugel's Saga (1983), Chapter 2, section 3, "The Ocean of Sighs"
“A word spoken in season, at the right moment, is the mother of ages.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 561.
1890s and attributed from posthumous publications
