Quotes About Words

A página de perfeição, a página na qual nenhuma palavra pode ser alterada sem prejuízo, é a mais precária de todas.

Éste es el final de la historia de los cuarenta y siete hombres leales —salvo que no tiene final, porque los otros hombres, que no somos leales tal vez, pero que nunca perderemos del todo la esperanza de serlo, seguiremos honrándolos con palabras.

Mis libros (que no saben que yo existo) Son tan parte de mí como este rostro De sienes grises y de grises ojos Que vanamente busco en los cristales Y que recorro con la mano cóncava. No sin alguna lógica amargura Pienso que las palabras esenciales Que me expresan están en esas hojas Que no saben quién soy, no en las que he escrito. Mejor así. Las voces de los muertos Me dirán para siempre.

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

Like alchemists // who looked for the philosopher's stone // in elusive quicksilver, // I shall make ordinary words - // the marked cards of the sharper, the people's coinage - // yield up their magic which was theirs // when Thor was inspiration and eruption, // thunder and worship. …

Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.

In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life value of the facts round about, and to deify them, as it were, to provide images that relate the everyday to the eternal.

It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth—penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words, beyond images

Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, the words of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted. JOSEPH CAMPBELL, Esalen, 1983

Mythology opens the world so that it becomes transparent to something that is beyond speech, beyond words—in short, what we call transcendence. Without that you don't have a mythology. Any system of thinking, ideologies of one kind or another, that does not open to transcendence cannot be classified or understood mythologically.

Menyindir biar berasas, memuji biar berisi.

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"

I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me.

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.

He was telling an interesting anecdote full of exciting words like "encyclopedia" and "rhododendron".

Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs.

Nowhere in the Bill of Rights are the words unless inconvenient to be found.

Magic came from within, from turning a secret key that lurked inside, waiting for the words to set it free. The

a teacher should never touch symbols. If he is going to use psychology he should do so more in action than in words.

Spelling is local, or rather national.

Her soul belongs ?to words and? books. Every time she ?reads she ?is home

Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep silent.

Nous écrirons : « Nous mangeons beaucoup de noix », et non pas : « Nous aimons les noix », car le mot « aimer » n'est pas sûr, il manque de précision et d'objectivité. […] Les mots qui définissent les sentiments sont très vagues; il vaut mieux éviter leur emploi et s'en tenir à la description des objets, des êtres humains et de soi-même, c'est-à-dire à la description fidèles des faits.