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“To give desire a voice is to give it a body through which to breathe and live. It is to admit and submit something which is on the outer limits of your understanding.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“Will of Slayer!
Maroc guards himself against the Will of Slayer the Mesmerizer emits. His prana shields him firmly. He even goes far enough to murmur something under his breath and not just think it—the word his Master Ruem taught him. It keeps his body warm.

“Burn it,�� the Mesmerizer mutters. The air turns denser. If air had consciousness, it would feel the weight of his voice now—the King of Mesmerizers�� voice.”
― Misba, The Oldest Dance

“A book is a living thing. It is a bird; it has a voice. The pages of a book are wings. Books have heartbeats. When readers read they feel them; they listen.”
― Suzy Davies

“If your voice didn’t hold any power, people wouldn’t work so hard to make you feel so small.”
― Mickey Rowe, Fearlessly Different: An Autistic Actor's Journey to Broadway's Biggest Stage

“You will learn that the single most dangerous weapon, before any ammunition, is your voice - and how you choose to use it.”
― Alexandra Monir, Black Canary: Breaking Silence

“Biti lišen glasa znači biti lišen utjecaja na vlastiti ž�����dz�.”
― Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

“Zbog toga ne moći is�����č��ti svoju priču, biti ušutkan i isključen znači biti dehumaniziran. A to pogađa samo ljudsko postojanje; tjera čovjeka da posumnja u svoje psihičko zdravlje, valjanost svoju inačicu događaja. U nama stvara duboku egzistencijalnu tjeskobu.
Gubitkom glasa nešto u nama umire.”
― Elif Shafak, How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

“Our voices need to be heard. We must be brave and speak our truth. Not just a few of us, but all! Women must join together and stop allowing pettiness to divide us. We must support one another in expressing ourselves, otherwise, it's too easy for us to be silenced. We all have something to say: wisdom needs to be honored; the world needs to hear our truth in order to heal. We must speak out because countless women all over the world are being denied a voice.”
― Leesa | The Gypsy Priestess

“The ink spills thickest before it runs dry before it stops writing at all.”
― Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee

“he's coming I'll have a voice no voice in the world but mine a murmur had a life up above down here I'll see my things again a little blue in the mud a little white our things little scenes skies especially and paths”
― Samuel Beckett, How It Is

“Notes give me keys of expression.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“On one level, the poems after Verlaine in this new book are a selfish project. I wanted to try on a voice with which, despite sharing some stylistic and tonal sympathies, I seemed to have little in common. It served as a psychodramatic exercise, a walk in somebody else’s shoes. Writing each new poem while drawing on the raw material of Verlaine in translation has led me, in the always dramatised context of the individual poem, to think and say things I’d likely never have dreamed of otherwise. But just as importantly, I hope these poems paint a fresh portrait of Paul Verlaine, however partial and sketchy, that reveals him to be a more surprising, hard-thinking, and even revivifying poet than expected. Beyond his skilled conjuring of delicate and atmospheric allusiveness, at its best, his is also poetry of punchy musicality, philosophical edge, and candidness �� both intellectual and emotional �� which allows for genuine beauty, sensuality, and sadness.”
― Ben Wilkinson, Same Difference

“Betty from down the street was one of those creatures who seemed to be operating under the notion that if she ever stopped talking, even for a second, she'd die.”
― Jim Knipfel, Residue

“We’re all looking for a trusted voice in the storm to help guide us -- one that can steer us toward the truth as it unfolds, and away from lies and misstatements, be they well-meaning or malicious. This is the leaders�� task �� to provide that “True North�� to employees, citizens, customers, investors, and stakeholders.”
― Davia Temin

“We’re all looking for a trusted voice in the storm to help guide us -- one that can steer us toward the truth as it unfolds, and away from lies and misstatements, be they well-meaning or malicious. This is the leader's task �� to provide that “True North�� to employees, citizens, customers, investors, and stakeholders.”
― Davia Temin

“Conscious leadership is an intentional effort to stay alert to the voices of the followers.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader

“If voices had colour, hers would have been like a rainbow. It made words LIVE. Whatever she said became a breathing entity, not a mere verbal statement or utterance.”
― L M Montgomery

“My father wanting to make sure my voice had the real power, the players needed to understand that their own influence would ultimately decide their outcomes.”
― Trevor Moawad, It Takes What It Takes: How to Think Neutrally and Gain Control of Your Life

“We make the world we live in. Market the world you want by sharing your voice with us.
We are all marketers. We may not want to be marketers, but we are all marketing by default whether we speak up or not.”
― Richie Norton

“You’ll mold the minds of men and women to your will, and make any group yield to the dominion of your voice. Even more important, you’ll get them to want to yield, to commit to your plan, and to consider the result a consensus.”
― Jay Heinrichs, Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion

“Time to change, ladies."
The stranger's deep, penetrating voice rumbled through Zara's body. Rich and full, it was the kind of voice that made lawyers spill milkshakes and babble incoherently as they thrust sticky business cards into celebrity hands.
"Is there a problem?" Parvati made a show of inspecting her weapon while Zara tried to untie her tongue. Although she couldn't see the dude's face, he was tall---at least six-two---and powerfully built, the top of his coveralls unzipped and tied around his narrow waist. His black T-shirt clung to his broad shoulders and magnificent pecs as if it had been painted on his muscular body. One thick, deeply tanned forearm bunched and flexed as he unholstered his weapon in one smooth practiced motion.”
― Sara Desai, The Singles Table

“In many poems voice is the mysterious atmosphere that makes it memorable, that holds it together and aloft like the womb around an embryo.”
― Tony Hoagland, The Art of Voice: Poetic Principles and Practice

“Alternatively, we could say that voice embodies, not any set of particular facts, but the presence of a self, a personality or a sensibility.”
― Tony Hoagland, The Art of Voice: Poetic Principles and Practice

“You speak differently to your four-year-old daughter than you do to the bank manager.”
― Tony Hoagland, The Art of Voice: Poetic Principles and Practice

“You will clepe a voice.
An open field quotidian
in the nocturnal Venetian blue.”
― Sneha Subramanian Kanta

“The act of giving a reason is the antithesis of authority. When the voice of authority fails, the voice of reason emerges. Or vice versa.”
― Frederick Schauer

“The choices that we make are determined by the voices to which we are listening. And to listen to the voice that says we’re not listening to any voices is the worst voice to listen to.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In an age where marketing’s role in matters aesthetic is ever-increasing, the individual voice can be an overvalued commodity, playing to a perceived appetite for poet-as-author.”
― Ben Wilkinson

“Even the most apparently autobiographical poem cannot help but deploy a persona that, while gesturing
towards a flesh-and-bones speaker, remains, paradoxically, no more than a dramatised representation. The illusion of the presence of the poet within a poem is made possible by that poem’s conjuring of the illusion of the present moment. Poems may utilise language in such ways as to gesture towards an immediacy that, in turn, gives rise to the seeming presence of a very real speaker.”
― Ben Wilkinson, Don Paterson

“On one level, the poems after Verlaine in this collection are a selfish project. I wanted to try on a
voice with which, despite sharing some stylistic and tonal sympathies, I seemed to have little in common. It served as a psychodramatic exercise, a walk in somebody else’s shoes. Writing each new poem while drawing on the raw material of Verlaine in translation has led me, in the always dramatised context of the individual poem, to think and say things I’d likely never have dreamed of otherwise. But just as importantly, I hope these poems paint a fresh portrait of Paul Verlaine, however partial and sketchy, that reveals him to be a more surprising, hard-thinking, and even revivifying poet than expected. Beyond his skilled conjuring of delicate and atmospheric allusiveness, at its best, his is also poetry of punchy musicality,
philosophical edge, and candidness �� both intellectual and emotional �� which allows for genuine beauty, sensuality, and sadness.”
― Ben Wilkinson, Same Difference