Speech/perception

Famous quotes containing the words speech and/or perception:

    “Funest philosophers and ponderers,
    Their evocations are the speech of clouds.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “And one may say boldly that no man has a right perception of any truth who has not been reacted on by it so as to be ready to be its martyr.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)