Quotes About Words

La literatura utiliza las figuras retóricas como un arma en su antagonismo con el sentido puro, con la significación abstracta que han tomado las palabras en el discurso cotidiano.

Wörter können wie Gift wirken. […] "Sie auch hier?" So ein harmloses Sätzchen, das aus einem freundlichen Mund das genaue Gegenteil besagen könnte. Wer das Wort verabreicht und wie, entscheidet über die Wirkung: Gift oder Gabe, Gnade oder Gnadenstoß.

We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.

Gossip and anger are like drinking poison and expecting someone else to die.

Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools

Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not!

After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done.

Beware of impostors taking sweet words.

Don't be fooled by a sweet talker. Believe someone who's actions and mouth speak the same truths.

Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings, but silence breaks your heart.

The words you speak today should be soft and tender. . . for tomorrow you may have to eat them.

Yet one more encounter with new faces, he thought, as he watched a tree and a cloud move past in slow motion, and eventually this one would also blur into the others; all that would remain distinct, perhaps, would be a few words that only he would deem significant, or an angle of a face, which in turn his mind would link with other things, some oddity of accent, or some other words confusing time and place and people to look for a pattern, some essence.

Inflate the sentence. Try to make it burst.

But couldn't he burn the twaddle instead of straining it. The story of the man who uses a Bunsen burner to singe from his lips the words with which a story might otherwise have been told.

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

Forget language. After all, it bores me. The senses. And this much is true: any communication must transcend the immediacy of solidarity, must be mediated by ideological and economic connections. And there the senses reappear. No use giving in to words.

prince of those Whose lore in words of wisdom flows. Whose constant care and chief delight

Over his brother's wide domain. To meet her husband Sítá came; But Ráma, stung with ire and shame, With bitter words his

Think ere you speak

Me gusta pensar que mis palabras permanecerán vivas una vez que mi voz se haya apagado.

If there exist fortunate people, if from time to time the wild sun of joy soars towards foreign lands in a sweet whirling of ecstasy — then where are the words which might tell of this? And if in the world there exists a beauty for enchantment, then how might one describe it? ("The Poison Garden")

Decision #7: I know my purpose and take daily action in the direction of my vision. Consistency is key. If you continually take steps in the right direction, you will eventually arrive at your destination. Consistent action yields consistent results. "For a dream comes through much activity, and a fool's voice is known by his many words," King Solomon promised in the book of Ecclesiastes (5:3 NKJV).

A poet's first contract is with truth.