Music is only love looking for words.
The world is built with words.
As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-places deep within us that we would not have known how to enter, its role in our lives is salutary....
Words are one of the most powerful things given to human beings. In the hands of artists who can use them properly they are like weapons of mass construction.
Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person.
Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.
I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.
Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture...
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.
It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understand...
The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.
Speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy and square like tanks.