Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"When I say 'I am a Christian', I'm not shouting 'I'm saved'. I'm whispering 'I get lost'. That is why I chose this way."
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Whispering
66 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Walt Disney
Animator, Film Producer
"Let your heart guide you...it whispers so listen closely."
Jack Gilbert
Poet
"We are resident inside with the machinery, a glimmering spread throughout the apparatus. We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones. The flesh is a neighborhood, but not the life."
Jack Gilbert
Poet
"We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones."
John Donne
Poet, Cleric
"Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell there shall meet as many men that never thought what was sin, as that spent all their thoughts in the compassing of sin."
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"It keeps eternal whisperings around desolate shores"
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"What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?"
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"What are fears but voices airy? Whispering harm where harm is not. And deluding the unwary Till the fatal bolt is shot!"
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"It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul."
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"My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away."
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"A little still she strove, and much repented, And whispering “I will ne'er consent”—consented."
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"The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud."
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"Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again and again and again and again: iloveyou"
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"The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause."
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"Mademoiselle is a fairy," he said, whispering mysteriously."
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"Foul whisperings are abroad"
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"A great whispering noise began to rise in the woods on either side of the tracks, as if the forest had just noticed we were there and was commenting on it."
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"I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words--changing nothing."
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