It has always been my custom to treat words with respect. I can recall the time...when I knew words would be my life's work
Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it
Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion.
doubters only doubt what they doubt
Everybody is a writer. Everybody has a hand. Everybody has a story. Everybody writes stories of life from dawn to dusk. Everybody has a pen. Everybody has inks. These are the inks for writing the stor...
English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.
A word (...) is never the destination, merely a signpost in its general direction; and whatever (...) body that destination finally acquires owes quite as much to the reader as to the writer.
The world is made up of words.
Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people's books, one's own books - it does not matter whose or whe...
Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it.
I never met a word I didn't love
Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They are what we hold on with, nothing else. They are as valuable in themselves as rope with nothing to...
I am not here to compete in the war of words, I am here to nurture the future of stories.
We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifi...
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.
My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free.
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.