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I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

— Emily Carr

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye.

— Donald Hall

There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things.

— George R. R. Martin

One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.

— Abraham Pais

The more I got into presenting things to the world, the further it was taking me away from what I was, which was someone who just used to sit quietly at a piano and sing and play. It became very important to me not to lose sight of that.

— Kate Bush

In 'Changeling,' I tried to show something you'd never see nowadays - a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

— Clint Eastwood

I found music when I was very dark. I felt unheard, with inner dialogues that I didn't know how to express.

— Jillian Rose Banks

And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself as poetry. There was no looking back.

— Edwin Morgan

I think being deaf gave me an increased sense of sight.

— Nyle DiMarco

✗Opposing Perspectives

Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly.

— Penelope Keith