Reciting Quotes

“People nowadays talk about the world's problems like they're reading lines off a teleprompter. They recite what they're told and echo it without thinking. It has become easier to divide people than to unify them, and to blind them than to give them vision. We are no longer unified like a bowl of Cheerios. Instead, we have become as segregated as a box of Lucky Charms. Every day we see the same leprechauns on TV acting like they're the experts of everything.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“You just wait.
Soon,
lovers all over the world
will be reciting poems
dedicated to you.
This is my promise.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Reciting from rote seems a terrible way to honor the gods and a precise killing of the power of the words.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

“If rewriting equals rereading, we must logically conclude that writing is reading. If this is indeed the case, how could we possibly write under a ban on reading? The only way left is mouth-to-mouth – poets and storytellers recite their pieces and before we can commit them to memory, everything vanishes into thin air.”
― Kyoko Yoshida