Slang is language which takes off its coat spits on its hands - and goes to work.
Let it not be said that I have said nothing new. The arrangement of the material is new.
A language is a dialect with its own army and navy.
Numbers constitute the only universal language.
Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
Words live longer than mortals.
Words can't save you, but they can give you courage.
A writer is like a stick of rock - the words go right through.
If your eyes could speak, what would they say?
Distance and time might keep people apart, but the heart and mind will always stay connected by memories, miracles and the power of two unlikely souls that were destined to meet.
Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it
He didn't speak much but the little he said kept me busy.
Words have consequences.
nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.
You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.
Looking at the root of a word is much like looking at the roots of a tree. The foundation is important, but even a tree with a strong root can still bear sickly fruit if it is subject to mismanagement
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.
Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Be a poet in action as well as in words.