Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it.

Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child.

In such troubled times, we must remember the value writers have—the value of inventing new language to keep pace with the rapidly transforming world around us.

As a result of these news stories, millions of people must have become aware of “niggardly,” who otherwise would never have heard it, let alone thought to use it. If this is right, and the...

If I can sit down at my keyboard and have a melody that says something that I can’t with words, that’s a really beautiful thing.

Quem diria que as palavras que nunca chegamos a dizer assentassem tão pesadamente?

There is light in the world, and it is time.

YOUR WORDS ARE SEEDS. You have the choice to speak life or death. Your words have a nucleus.They can be magnificent co creations with angels, producing mind silk. Or, they can be the polymers of...

Somos o que pensamos, e dizemos aquilo que pensamos com palavras. Se as palavras são tão mal usadas, deturpadas, mal pronunciadas muitas vezes, que pensamento podem expressar? Isso é frustrante.

Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.

She was battered and beaten up, and not smiling this time. Liesel could see it on her face. Blood leaked from her nose and licked at her lips. Her eyes had blackened. Cuts had opened...

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal...

…you can be angry and silent, but it’s no use – there’s no distance in the spirit – besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands…

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to...

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a...

There are things known—things experienced, felt, and understood—that words hold no power to convey. Attempting to do so only dilutes their substance and does them injustice.

I never dreamed of anything like this. It’s beyond words.

Fresh content doesn’t exist to game the SEO system. It’s the words, images, and stories that truly engage us, make us want to share with others, and creates a bond between us and a brand.

I can’t put into words what hitting that shot was like. I just knew I needed to hit it.

My parents’ generation didn’t have any understanding of psychology or emotion or individual temperament. In fact, they were slightly embarrassed by all those words.

In video games and animation, you find that the toughest things to make different are the things that aren’t words: grunts, groans, gasps.

Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down.

The blood on my page represents the words that I cannot speak.

Besides, I always feel safer when I’ve got words against my heart.

Speak so polite with people that your ill wishers become your well wishers.

Some people have a way with words, and other people…oh, uh, not have way.

all the wordsall the poems know my warm, soft spots.

Leave if you must. But leave when you are strong, not weak. Leaving should be a choice and not the only option.

But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs.

That’s enough feeling for a while nowHands shaking, sweat dripping from his browHe eyed the narrow closet doorThe monster in it asking him to feel moreTill he learned to not hearTo stay away and not...

He who does not want to communicate will never enjoy their silence for very long.

A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms.

Words could bite. When I spoke to strangers, I wanted my words to have fangs.

Conclusion 1:Boredom= Flared tempers= hard words

There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they’d been said. They take a long...

Covalent Bonds

I write more with the words I leave out.

If people want to be better writers, they can’t just read the blogs! You’ve got to look at something that’s outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

I’m drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words ‘divine love’ and ‘impeachment’ in the first sentence. But I know the word ‘divine’ makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little...

It was words and reading that had made me quiet, and being quiet had made me a mark.

I don’t know what to say when I have a crush on somebody. I kind of lose my words. I really try to start a conversation, and I can’t. It’s horrible.

:Paintings are easy to see,” he said after a moment. “Open, presented flat to the eye. Words are not easy. Words have to be discovered, deep in their pages, deciphered, translated, read. Words are symbols...

I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order they should be placed in an attempt to keep someone’s attention and perhaps...

The words with which a child’s heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.

ahthOOn SSyng!” I said. “That’s farewell.””It sounds evil.””It is,” I answered, and we parted.

how many times have I told you…

Talk is cheap when your words have no value.

If words don’t have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they’re just words.

How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world...