Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.
Should you care to write (and only the saints know why you should) you must needs have knowledge and art and magic - the knowledge of the music of words, the art of being artless, and the magic of lov...
Writing poetry is about learning to pare down the poem to the most essential words. Every word used has to be crucial to the poem.
You do not need words to tell the truth.
Perhaps it's no coincidence that the word words is an anagram of sword. Well-used words cut through ambiguity and confusion like a sharp sword in the hands of an expert swordsman.
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
Words are a great influence in actions, feelings, and simply just the meaning behind it.
Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.
Words are weapons of war.
Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives.
You only need four words to spell the greatest word in the universe: L.O.V.E.
A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the B...
There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a...
you have to find the words to make it sound important
No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....
If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.
Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,Are a substantial world, both pure and good:Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.
Poetry flows from our hearts. It is like that mass of snow we call a glacier and when it starts its slow movement, it thaws all the icicles, which keep mounting within us, in the hope of receiving the...
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.