How can love’s spaciousnessbe conveyed in the narrowconfines of one syllable?

Words are winds.

It’s the hardest fucking thing. It’s why we drink and do drugs and fight. It’s why I play music and build engines.

Sword and words—same letters, and same ability to cut down.

You mean less to me than the dog s__t I scraped off the bottom of my shoe!

Spelling Bees are useless and unnecessary competitions. Before Microsoft Word and Google, Spelling Bees had value, but now they are all superflewus.

Many who have learnedfrom Hesiod the countless namesof gods and monstersnever understandthat night and day are one

Words his soul danced to.

Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.

The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me.

The way he said her name made my heart cramp. In all my years of word collecting, I’ve learned this to be a tried and true fact: I can very often tell how much a...

How old must you be before words can no longer fool you?

There’s no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They are as infinite as worlds.

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make...

The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs & convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than what these words designate.

I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some...

Are you watching the boats?” Cornelia guessed. She craned her neck to see if there was any excitement on the river.Heavens no, I’m spying on people,” Virginia responded unrepentantly.-Cornelia E and Virginia Somerset

Many, whose hearts are conquered by acute spite, roll out balanced tales from their own heart, which do not balance when you weigh words against deeds.

Because Shakespeare’s language is so expansive, we’re under this misconception that it’s difficult. But I discovered that it’s easy because it’s so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very...

I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I’m not around to tell you so.

Pithy.

My experience of chaotic lessons has humbled me enough to know, I could have it worse than I do I now and positive enough to know I can be where I want to be, someday.

Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.

…you can use words if you wish, but I’m warning you – I’ve learned how to read your heart …

Silence made space for other people’s words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

There’s the real world, with all its annoying facts and rules. In the real world, there are things that are true and things that aren’t. Mostly the real world s-s-s-suh-sucks. But everyone also lives in...

The past, the present, and the future walked into a bar. It was tense.

That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.

The two of us snuggled like quotation marks in his room full of words.

I wrote so meagerly to you. But what I couldn’t write swelled and swelled like an old-fashioned airship and drifted away at last through the night sky.

I write the paragraph, then I’m crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it up because sometimes it’s almost illegible, and if I wait,...

Words cut deeper than knives. A knife can be pulled out, words are embedded into our souls.

Words are power. The more words you know and can recognize, use, define, understand, the more power you will have as a human being… The more language you know, the more likely it is that...

… Our language, tiger, our language: hundreds of thousands of available words, frillions of legitimate new ideas… And yet, oh, and yet, we, all of us, spend all our days saying to each other the...

The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people’s journeys.

To say someone is a vision is to pay them a great compliment. If you say that they look a sight it is a grave insult.

Poetry keeps mein a highly drunken stateof divinity.

The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book – and I mean, of course, a work of literature, not an instruction...

Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the...

I’m from the South, and there’s a different understanding of how to chop. There’s a syllable play. It’s a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you’re from a certain...

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

Don’t bother to argue anything on the Internet. And I mean, ANYTHING…. The most innocuous, innocent, harmless, basic topics will be misconstrued by people trying to deconstruct things down to the sub-atomic level and entirely...

Talk like an ambassador (Eph 4:29-30). 1)Consider the person (“only what is helpful for building others up”)2) Consider the problem (“according to their needs”)3) Consider the process (“that it may benefit those who listen”)

words are much stronger than I am.

Alphabet soup is my magic eight ball. Served hot or cold, words are delicious.

The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world.

I loathe my childhood and all that remains of it.Jean-Paul Sartre, Words

We read to under­stand our intu­ition of the world, to dis­cover that some­one a thou­sand miles and years away has put into words our most inti­mate desires and our most secret fears. Reading is a...

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.