Quotes About Words

We need a President that all Americans can respect, not a celebrity who uses words like freedom and liberty like they are a punchline in a reality show.

Pleasure involves respect, and respect starts with words.

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.

disrespectful words cannot entirely be eaten, ever. Respect is a kind of Humpty Dumpty. All the king's horses can't put it all the way up again.

We will paste upon the curled pages words Like charming and romantic and sentimental Forgetting that charming is witchcraft Romantic is love And sentiment is what makes us human

A Writer in Love.I was just a word weaverWhat did I know of love?Only thatSome days when the words weren't enough, I knewI was in love.

They were very sweet words. Words that soothed the gaping hurt in her soul. But the devil was good when it comes to dealing with damaged souls.

Olmo Panero a traversé les Pyrénées pour nous dire que les mots étaient des parenthèses de silence.

Lips to lips, mouth to mouth, Comes the speaker of the shrouds, Suck in the spirit, speak the words, Let secrets of the dead be heard.

Words can be powerful allies. Or enemies

Lips to lips, mouth to mouth, Comes the speaker of the shrouds. Suck in the spirit, speak the words, Let secrets of the dead be heard. The

Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words...

They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again.

The baby understands that its mother loves it. [...] Words have their origin in baby talk, so words have their origin in love.

It sounds cool to say you are going to fight with a pen not a sword but violence with words is still violence ..

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

No sooner had the words passed his lips than he was taken up and whisked into the moat with prodigious force; and the fairies came crowding round about him with great anger, screeching and screaming and roaring out, "Who spoiled our tune? Who spoiled our tune?"

If a powerful and benevolent spirit has shaped the destiny of this world, we can better discover that destiny from the words that have gathered up the heart's desire of the world, than from historical records, or from speculation, wherein the heart withers.

They can hardly separate mere learning from witchcraft, and are fond of words and verses that keep half their secret to themselves.

Where by books go by W.B. Yeats All the words that I utter, And all the words that I write, Must spread out their wings untiring, And never rest in their flight, Till they come where your sad, sad heart is, And sing to you in the night, Beyond where the waters are moving, Storm-darken'd or starry bright.

The whole of life, in all its complexity and beauty, has been etched into the gold of words.

If they will not understand that we are bringing them a mathematically faultless happiness, our duty will be to force them to be happy. But before we take up arms, we shall try the power of words.

It was a remarkable intersection of thoughts. She said almost in the same words the things I had written down before the walk! Do you understand? Even the thoughts! It is because nobody is one, but one of. We are all so much alike—

All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.