nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.
Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.
You are giving me words to write and that's even better than butterflies.
Be a poet in action as well as in words.
Words are power. The more words you know and can recognize, use, define, understand, the more power you will have as a human being... The more language you know, the more likely it is that no one can...
In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.
Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is, prose = words in their best order - poetry = the best words in the best order.
You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.
People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only wi...
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and th...
I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince...
As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.
The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties.
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good.
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.
What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.