Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that's why we all love music, because it resonates with something we can't share.
Words may be false and full of art Sighs are the natural language of the heart.
I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say.
Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.
Let it not be said that I have said nothing new. The arrangement of the material is new.
A single word often betrays a great design.
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.
The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
Languages are the pedigree of nations.
Eloquence is the language of nature and cannot be learned in the schools but rhetoric is the creature of art which he who feels least will most excel in.
In certain trying circumstances urgent circumstances desperate circumstances profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
Words form the sinew and muscle that hold societies upright, he argued. Consider the Koran, the Bible, the American Constitution, but also letters from fathers to sons, last wills, blessings, curses....
An author is like a jeweller, with words as their gemstones and imagination the precious metals.
Na, it's not about what I say; It's about what I can't express in words.
A writer is like a stick of rock - the words go right through.
As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.
In other words, all the highest aims of language are decisively the work of God. They are decisively supernatural. And no amount of poetic effort or expertise in the use of words can bring about the g...
silence can be words but words cannot be silence
In the shade of words sits life itself.