I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's easy to denigrate a word by trivializing it.
Words may be false and full of art Sighs are the natural language of the heart.
No matter how eloquently a dog may bark he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.
True eloquence consists of saying all that should be not all that could be said.
Words like eyeglasses blur everything that they do not make clear.
Who does not know another language does not know his own.
If you were to make little fishes talk they would talk like whales.
In certain trying circumstances urgent circumstances desperate circumstances profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
When an idea is wanting a word can always be found to take its place.
Behind our wise words lie rare jewels;behind our reckless ones, bombs.
As a writer, you must truly possess a love for words.""Yes, that's right," I agreed."I've noticed that some authors favor particular words, making frequent use of them. Do you have a favorite?"I nodde...
Don't let yourself be amazed by the imagination of a writer and his words, writers are almost all the time in a love-hate relationship with words.
This is why we said 'ain't'and 'he don't'.We wanted words to fitour cold linoleum,our oil lamps, ourouthouse. We knewbetter but it was wrongto use a languagethat named ghosts,nothing you could touch.
silence can be words but words cannot be silence
The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic.
I belong to clever words and bedtime storieseven a good riddle or twoI belong to the sound of musicand dance to my own rhythmI belong to the sunlight on a chilly autumn daywhen the world awaits a new...
Joy lurks in every mundane thing, just waiting to be found. Love is impervious to reason. And words are wonderful.
Stop apologizing and censoring yourself, you have every right to feel the way you do. Your feelings, your struggles, your emotions are all valid.
Things are set up as contraries that are not even in the same category. Listen to me: the opposite of radical is superficial; the opposite of liberal is stingy; the opposite of conservative is destruc...
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...