How pathetic it is to describe these things which can’t truly be described.

Words can be a fortress or a drawbridge to disaster

Speech is the deadliest of revealers.’ – Hercule Poirot, Cards on the Table

If you are tempted to revealA tale to you someone has toldAbout another, make it pass,Before you speak, three gates of gold;These narrow gates. First, “Is it true?”Then, “Is it needful?” In your mindGive truthful...

A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.

The species greatest harvest ― words.

Netiquette Positive Word of The Day: Able – having skill to do something. Intelligence is a synonym.

He believes that if talent is demanded of a literary publisher or a writer, it must also be demanded of a reader. Because we mustn’t deceive ourselves: on the journey of reading we often travel...

However, Gregor had become much calmer. All right, people did not understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to him, clearer than previously, perhaps because had gotten used to them

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.

Sweep my dreams not beneath my feet. Be somewhere that my steps won’t meet. Breaking the broom isn’t a must. Don’t mistake unmoved dreams for dust

Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives.

How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?

A writer creates wings of words and lets them fly in the sky of readers’ minds.

Our words were a shaky ladder; all I could do was climb, uncertain if I was about to surmount a glorious peak or fall and smash myself on the rocks below.

Instead of reciting her an original love poem using words, I think I’ll use my tongue to more creatively explore the deepest parts of her.

When all the birds and all the fish join forces, the politicians will be forced to chew on and swallow their own slimy, wormlike words. But until the time that the sky and the sea...

Eye contact is way more intimate than words will ever be.

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there’s truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it’s gibberish and no...

Your words, your thoughts, your imagination: powerful tools. Remember that and use them wisely.

TV – a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium – we call it a medium because nothing’s well done.

Have your dream…What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

Women’s Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger’d.

That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific–chair, eye, stone–but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were this and not that, they couldn’t include all the meanings. In...

One of my little girls is named Reagan. Her first words were, ‘Mr. Larry, tear down this crib.’ That was her first words, it was very sweet. My first words were, ‘Are you going to...

The right words to express oneself can never be found in any dictionary.

Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive to those poor, marvelous words left in our dark night...

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on...

. . .our whispered words, faintly in the darkness, dissolvingwithin the trees—then, fleeting words of consolationwould not suffice if feigned, and flippant wordsconfessed reluctance—our wordswere meaningless uttered on the wind. . .

Look, words are like the air: they belong to everybody. Words are not the problem; it’s the tone, the context, where those words are aimed, and in whose company they are uttered. Of course murderers...

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious

Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure...

Performance art is about joy, about making something that’s so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can’t put into words.

always tell the truth and you’ll never have to remember your words.

The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

I told her about school and how I sat on a wall there and felt stories and words move through me …

We must be loyal to the truth, not to our words! Change your words if they are not compatible with the truth; go back on your words, throw them to the bin!

Family. It was just a word…Could see its letters all strung together. But it was a symbol, too. And people thought they knew what it meant…It was a thing everyone had an opinion about—that it...

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

I was so anxious. Words cannot even express it.

The wise man reveals more than words spoken.

Some people have the coldest smiles, but have the tenderest hearts. And many have the most tender smiles, but carry the coldest hearts. You cannot judge a man by his smile, but you can judge...

Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.

Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, ‘Be fruitful and multiply,’ but not in those words.

People keep asking me …How to instantly become a better writer? It’s simple: Use “power words” and see for yourself.

You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.