Let every kissing of the badge, Every cultured pass, every lad and lass, Every uttered thought, every chant and rant, Every strip and stripe – be free of it.
As speech is the echo of the thought in the Soul, so thought in the Soul is an echo from elsewhere: that is to say, as the uttered thought is an image of the soul-thought, so the soul-thought images a thought above itself and is the interpreter of the higher sphere.
That poetry not only presupposes the other forms of human mental activity but is presupposed by them, is proved by the fact that without the poetic imagination which gives contemplative form to the workings of feeling, intuitive expression to obscure impressions, and thus becomes representations and words, whether spoken or sung or painted or otherwise uttered, logical thought could not arise.
The spoken sentence is filled with uttered second thoughts, changes of direction, lurches off on tangents and similar twists.
There are the fixed true sounds (varṇa), and then there are the uttered sounds (vacana, "utterance").
Charles Darwin was so struck by this thought that in 1871 he wrote in The Descent of Man: "The sounds uttered by birds offer in several aspects the nearest analogy to language, for all the members of the same species utter the same instinctive cries expressive of their emotions; and all kinds that have the power of singing exert this power instinctively".
The word "delighted" was uttered in the immediate aftermath of this game, and it was uttered by a manager.
The object, on the other hand, is best thought of as whatever is signified, for example, the object to which the written or uttered word attaches, or the fire signified by the smoke.
We say that the one and many become identified by thought, and that now, as in time past, they run about together, in and out of every word which is uttered, and that this union of them will never cease, and is not now beginning, but is, as I believe, an everlasting quality of thought itself, which never grows old.
They are never recorded officially, only uttered and remembered.
Cruel words, even if uttered thoughtlessly, can wound.
