A 21st century poet is a woman who can speak her mind and stand upright like a mountain with her convictions, but can adapt like water in an ever changing season without losing her genuine...

I couldn’t believe a man had written this! Ryker had a way with words and the way with words and the way my emotions got twisted in them was a gift only a true writer...

The forsaking of all others is a keeping of faith, not just with the chosen one, but with the ones forsaken. The marriage vow unites not just a woman and a man with each other;...

A witch relied too much on words ever to go back on them.

The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough, for my confession. I loved her.

LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods....

Now, standing here, it is clear as day: more than anything else, you want to find words for what you feel and think and everything that is dark. And then this terrifying thought hits you:...

If we rub a fabric too often, it will quickly grow threadbare; and Nobu’s words had rasped against me so much, I could no longer maintain that finely lacquered surface Mameha had always counseled me...

Words are a lens to focus one’s mind.

We create words, words create wonders.

Words, then, are born of worlds. But they also take us places we can’t go: Constantinople and Mars, Valhalla, the Planet of the Apes. Language comes from what we’ve seen, touched, loved, lost. And it...

I wondered how he’d learned to push the words away, to drown them, to not feel them pounding against his head and his heart, begging to be spoken.

Sometimes paper is only paper,” my mothers says. “Words are just words. Ways to capture the real thing. Don’t be afraid to remember that.”I know what she means. Writing, painting, singing–it cannot stop everything. Cannot...

So many thoughts ran through my head. Most of them contained the same, simply three words so often strung together that it was too much a classic cheese or cliche to say it, but they...

Each word’s evocative value or virtue, its individual power of touching springs in the mind and of initiating visions, becomes a treasure to revel in. Besides this hold on affection a word may well have...

I am often described to my irritation as a ‘contrarian’ and even had the title inflicted on me by the publisher of one of my early books. (At least on that occasion I lived up...

Language does have the power to change reality. Therefore, treat your words as the mighty instruments they are – to heal, to bring into being, to remove, as if by magic, the terrible violations of...

Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage...

When you don’t cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed...

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

Either I’ve always spoken to her from the heart in times like this, or I never have and I don’t know what it means.

I think, in a way, I invented the term ‘fight club’ and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created...

Talking about one’s feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the human experience into words, it becomes little more than a spectator sport. Everything must have a cause, and...

Some words are sweet but unprotifable! Some are bitter but important. First weigh your words on the counter of integrity and speak not only because your words are sweet, but because they contain the truth!

I found the way by the sound of your voice. So many things to say but these are only words. Now I’ve only words. Once there was a choice, did I give you much? Well...

All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind, are of the imagination, are originally poetic words.

A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life...

Let them see that their words can cut you, and you’ll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name, take it, make it your own. Then they can’t hurt...

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you’re always ultimately going to be saying somebody else’s words. I don’t think I’d have the stamina, skill or ability to write...

Words are loneliness.

Words themselves are all the ghosts we need.

Her mouth contorted, and the wrinkles around her lips were like the dunes of a frosted cupcake. And I just wanted to lick her living word machine (mouth).

She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

…because if there was one thing he didn’t like it was big words, they just lied and covered things up, those big words, they didn’t let what really was live and breathe but just carried...

The best prayers have often more groans than words.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

Words can’t save you, but they can give you courage.

Any punishment is an insult to the crime

This feels so good, I don’t have the words. It’s indescribable, indescribable.

deep down” all that means is you’re fooling yourself. You’re seeing what you want to see and not what’s really there.

One of my main techniques for acting is I try to know almost nothing beyond the words that I have to say, because that’s my zone of control.

There are books so alive that you’re always afraid that while you weren’t reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too,...

… she had uttered these words simply in order to provoke a reply in certain other words, which she seemed, indeed, to wish to hear spoken, but, from prudence, would let her friend be the...

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

As if he conveyed by actions what he could never say in words. Would never say in words.

Sözcüklere ne kadar dikkat edilse azdır, onlar da insanlar gibi bir fikirden diğerine geçiverirler.

To say “all that which does not exist” is to introduce, effectively, a new concept, but it does not bring into existence anything more than that very concept which it introduces. That is, a certain...

The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn’t be any of this.