Quotes About Communication

If you want romance, fuck a journalist.

I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn't a word that wasn't essential. This leads to becoming boring and constipated.

When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over. from an essay for Writers by Nancy Crampton

For a desert island, one would choose a good dictionary rather than the greatest literary masterpiece imaginable, for, in relation to its readers, a dictionary is absolutely passive and may legitimately be read in an infinite number of ways.

The underlying reason for writing is to bridge the gulf between one person and another.

Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings..

If a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer 'writer' for fear that he may go on to ask me what I write, and to answer poetry would embarrass us both.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language." — W. H. Auden

Whatever else it may or may not be, I want every poem I write to be a hymn in praise of the English language.

Because I love you more than I can say, If I could tell you I would let you know.

The guy came at him with a baseball bat. What was he supposed to do, unfriend him on Facebook?

Gilbert's response to being told they (the words 'ruddy' and 'bloody') meant the same thing was: "Not at all, for that would mean that if I said that I admired your ruddy countenance, which I do, I would be saying that I liked your bloody cheek, which I don't.

The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter of a transcendental kind.

Sing 'Hey to you — good-day to you' — Sing 'Bah to you — ha! ha! to you' — Sing 'Booh to you — pooh, pooh to you' — And that's what you should say!

This particularly rapid, unintelligible patter Isn't generally heard, and if it is it doesn't matter, This particularly rapid, unintelligible patter Isn't generally heard, and if it is it doesn't matter, matter, matter, matter, matter, matter, matter, matter, matter, matter, matter!

There was an old man of St. Bees, Who was stung in the arm by a wasp; When they asked, "Does it hurt?" He replied, "No, it doesn't, But I thought all the while 'twas a Hornet.

What I remember I cannot tell though it is there in all that I say

The thing that makes poetry different from all other arts [is that] you're using language, which is what you use for everything else--telling lies and selling socks, advertising and conducting law. Whereas we don't write little concerti to each other, or paint pictures.

Testimone Voglio raccontare di com'erano le foreste Dovrò parlare in una lingua dimenticata p#109

I know how words are, how they go everywhere, one hint is enough. They talk of love, what do they know? We have the morsel and the knife.

Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.

If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.

Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.

Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.