Words Quotes

"A poet can survive everything but a misprint." "To say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words" "Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree." "Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them." "Preach the Gospel at all times. When necessary, use words." "Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?" "I want to see thirst inside the syllables" "Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them" "Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much" "Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning." "There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions. And words." "Words are spades digging the cairns of those who can't speak" "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness" "After all is said and done, more is said than done" "Words and eggs must be handled with care. Once broken they are impossible things to repair" "There are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven you can't say on television. What a ratio that is. 399,993 to 7. They must really be bad. They’d have to be outrageous to be separated from a group that large" "I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty" "All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead." "I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything." "If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?"