He multiplieth words without knowledge.
Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.
Behind our wise words lie rare jewels;behind our reckless ones, bombs.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
To hunt words is to do no trespass.
We all have a place within us, that would like to rewrite the way our life was written out for us....That's why people want to become authors.
If a separate personal Paradise exists for each of us, mine must be irreparably planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars, by people who see their confiscated justice given back,...
When I sit down and write, I do it to relieve myself of the madness that burdens me so that new words can wrap me in newer, better, madness.
Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them.
I've fixed my feelings into durable wordswhen they could have been spent on tenderness
I've never subscribed to the "words can never hurt me" point of view. Because if words can't hurt, then neither can they help or heal or inspire. Yes, words can brutalize. They can shame and scar. But...
The tongue can cut deeper than the sword or heal faster than in the ward.
A good storyteller minces words to entertain or inspire the audience. The politicians and religious leaders do much the same, but for a different purpose - to turn otherwise normal people to nutcases.
The only substance that goes in and never leaves, are words
Is it crazy to say that I sometimes don't understand what I write but I write it anyway, because maybe someone, somewhere, somehow, would feel what I didn't?
Jess couldn't stop spitting out words, because they were words like blades to hurt, and if she swallowed them, she'd be scraped hollow.
Most of the words we use in history and everyday speech are like mental depth charges. As they descend [through our consciousness] and detonate, their resonant power is unleashed, showering our unders...
We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A b...
A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable image...
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.