Quotes About Words

By poetry we mean the art of employing 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 colours.

I bleed words, Ink drops, and Poetry merges— Blackish-crimson Autobiography

Ink kisses dripping crimson words and with blood-red lips leaves prints on her finest poetry.

You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it technically tick, and say to yourself, when the works are laid out before you, the vowels, the consonants, the rhymes or rhythms, 'Yes, this is it. This is why the poem moves me so...' But you're back again where you began. You've back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps in the works of the poem so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash, or thunder in.

poetry is flitting butterfly words leaving inky spots on fragile papery wings

I would define... the Poetry of words as The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty.

Words are rather the drossy part of poetry; imagination the life of it.

Promises are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver.

Nothing weights lighter than a promise.

Promise little and do much.

Of course, talking only in proverbs would be impossible. Proverbs are full of poetry and twists. They are made up of words that have been molded for centuries, if not milleniums, until a minimum of words carry an extraordinary potential for meaning.

Dost thou not, then, Prometheus, know this proverb, that "Words are the physicians of a mind diseased"?

Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning, if you have enough of them.

Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.

I wish the first word I ever said was the word "quote" so right before I die I could say "unquote."

A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine.

I swim across a sea of quotes, splashing in the words and riding the waves of wisdom.

What shall I say to you? What can I say Better than silence is?...

The orator... is... most eloquent when most silent.

It is the flow of a communal action that is full of the overflowing grace of God, present in gestures and concrete signs as well as in words.

The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.

There are two authors of every biblical book: the human author who penned the words, and the divine Author who revealed and inspired every word. While God did not dictate the words to the biblical writers, he did guide their minds so that they wrote their own words under the influence of the Holy Spirit.

Much of the advertising focused on Graham's name and image. He appreciated the power of repetition. He once remarked that the quality of the words and colors on a billboard was less important than the number of billboards a motorist passed.