With thee conversing I forget all time.
I'm not rapping, I'm conversing. It's just a conversation between me and you.
I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.
Conversing with children is a fine art. . . . An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a better word.
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.
Not just any talk is conversation; not any talk raises consciousness. Good conversation has an edge: it opens your eyes to something, quickens your ears. And good conversation reverberates: it keeps on talking in your mind later in the day; the next day, you find yourself still conversing with what was said. That reverberation afterward is the very raising of consciousness; your mind's been moved. You are at another level with your reflections.
All of us need better skills in listening, conversing, respecting one another's uniqueness, because these are essential for strong relationships.
The work of art acts like another living person with whom we are conversing.
I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, — who yet live and speak excellently in their works. My neighbors think me often alone, — and yet at such times I am in company with more than five hundred mutes — each of whom, at my pleasure, communicates his ideas to me by dumb signs — quite as intelligently as any person living can do by uttering of words.
