Quotes About Words

When young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape...

ALways be careful what you say. You can always say you're sorry, but you can never take back what you said.

I never speak in silence.

A writer uses his pen as a gun to kill readers.

My words are my thesis, my actions are my dissertation, and my life is my philosophy.

Your eyes tell me everything about you.Your words only confirm it.

Proofs are to mathematics what spelling (or even calligraphy) is to poetry. Mathematical works do consist of proofs, just as poems do consist of words.

Every politician brings in a wide range of context, promises and characters to bring his mission of you to listen to his words and vote for him and later he won't listen to you at any range.

The art of writing is the manipulation of words to ease the mind and free the imagination

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry.

Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough.

The beauty of words will forever be stronger than the silence of tears.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

Poetry evokes out of words the resonance of the primordial world.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words.

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always was a woman of excess, of zeal and greed, I find the effort useless.

By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.