There is an inimitable grace in Virgil's words, and in them principally consists that beauty which gives so inexpressible a pleasure to him who best understands their force. This diction of his, I must once again say, is never to be copied; and since it cannot, he will appear but lame in the best translation.
This dark diction has become America's addiction.
Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi.
Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the new generations have all to learn. There may possibly be books without a polished language, but there can be no polished language without books.
Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or Cleverness of expression, but Operates “in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.
Fact is richer than diction.
I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or 'literary' diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.
But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it, is a man in alliance with truth and God.
Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.
However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction.
This is form and content and diction and tone and imagination all looking up at the exact same moment: When Molly Tanzer claps once at the front of the classroom.
Enunciation, diction, all that stuff. None of that is in my personality.
[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:]. . . for finish, and melody of versification, there is nothing approaching to Miss Barrett in this day, or in any other - also for diction. Her words paint.
The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.
For whatever reason, thus far it's been important to me not to write that kind of collection. Which means that I've spent months playing tic-tac-notecard, trying to get the stories in an order whereby stories that are similar in any given way (diction, narrative stance, setting, plot) are separated by others that aren't.
Let us, cautious in diction And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.
Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.
You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction.
Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.
But Michael Jackson didn't have perfect diction - He said 'chamone' instead of 'come on'.
