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  • Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance.

    Denise Levertov (1973). “The poet in the world”, New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax

    The Rights of Man pt. 1 (1791)
  • The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it.

    Lying   Believe   Writing  
    James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.162
  • I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation.

    Book   Speech   Alphabet  
  • An aspersion upon my parts of speech!

    'The Rivals' (1775) act 3, sc. 3
  • The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

  • I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers will dig in you like quotation marks, blazing your limbs into parts of speech.

    Rip   Swings   Speech  
  • I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician.

    Music   Art   Mean  
    Letter to Leopold Mozart, 8 Nov. 1777
  • The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

    Mind   World   Speech  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.13, Courier Corporation
  • I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. Its always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact its so supple and sly.

    Thinking   Speech   Facts  
  • All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article, Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection.

    Joseph Devlin (2014). “How to Speak and Write Correctly (illustrated): Fully Formatted Version”, p.5, Full Moon Publications
  • One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).

    Men   People   Speech  
    Soren Kierkegaard (2015). “Papers and Journals”, p.62, Penguin UK
  • In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some dangler, who hopes, in the mask and robes of his paragraph, to pass for somebody. But through every clause and part of speech of the right book I meet the eyes of the most determined men; his force and terror inundate every word: the commas and dashes are alive; so that the writing is athletic and nimble,--can go far and live long.

    Book   Writing   Eye  
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