Quotes About Words

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. Mark Twain Every

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. Mark Twain

Words would define me, govern and determine me. Words warranted my devotion - not drugs, not boys. That's why I clung to the myth that poetry could somehow magically still my scrambled innards.

But literature, the best of it, does not aim to be literature. It wants and strives, beyond that artifact part of itself, to be a true part of the composite human record—that is, not words but a reality.

Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry. Yes indeed.

The language of the poem is the language of particulars.

And whoever thinks these are worthy, breathy words I am writing down is kind. Writing is neither vibrant life nor docile artifact but a text that would put all its money on the hope of suggestion. Come with me into the field of sunflowers is a better line than anything you will find here, and the sunflowers themselves far more wonderful than any words about them.

the sunflowers themselves far more wonderful than any words about them.

For poems are not words after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry. Mary Oliver (1935-2019). This quote from 'A Poetry Handbook' (1994)

Wherever I've lived my room and soon the entire house is filled with books; poems, stories, histories, prayers of all kinds stand up gracefully or are heaped on shelves, on the floor, on the bed. Strangers old and new offering their words bountifully and thoughtfully, lifting my heart. But, wait! I've made a mistake! how could these makers of so many books that have given so much to my life—how could they possibly be strangers?

For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple. Under the trees, along the pale slopes of sand, I walk in an ascendant relationship to rapture, and with words I celebrate this rapture. I see, and dote upon, the manifest.

As Jack hurried up to his room, some words from the Civil War song ran through his mind:        Give us a song to cheer           Our weary hearts, a song of home Ã¢â'¬Â¦

We picked up a pilot outside the Lewes breakwater a man of few words.

The best words in the best order...one always go the same shock of recognition and delight when someone's words swam up to meet a thought or name a picture. Poetry was awful good material to think with.

One always got the same shock of recognition and delight when someone's words swam up to meet a thought or name a picture.

and once his words had even power over my heart;

shuddered to think who might be the next victim sacrificed to his insatiate revenge. And then I thought again of his words—"I will be with you on your wedding-night.

We can only hope to catch a glimpse of people's inner light through their actions and words, and even then it remains an enigma, but the perfect mystic's inner light cannot be contained within him for he does not follow the patterns trod by other men.

Parler de paix tout en répandant le sang, c'est quelque chose que seul l'être humain peut faire.

journalists will have to understand the words as meaningful and consequential. That, in turn, requires a reckoning not only with the damage Trumpism has inflicted on the public sphere but also with the conditions that made him so effective.

Intuition comes when you're truly listening at a level that is not just with words, but instead with a connection and true understanding of

Test it out and see what happens. Most importantly, have fun with it!     Chapter 5: What Our Bodies Are Really Saying Talk is cheap. Actions

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny." -Mahatma Gandhi

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.