Famous Quotes | To say more than human things...

To say more than human things with human voice,
That cannot be; to say human things with more
Than human voice, that, also, cannot be;
To speak humanly from the height or from the depth
Of human things, that is acutest speech. - Wallace Stevens
Attribution: Wallace Stevens (1879–1955), U.S. poet. “Chocorua to Its Neighbor.”

Categories: Humanism, Speech

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