Words Quotes
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God wove a web of loveliness, Of clouds and stars and birds, But made not anything at all, So beautiful as words.
Anna Hempstead Branch -
Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.
Eugene Ionesco
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Nature's lessons are hard to learn. Harder still is it to translate Nature's lessons to others. Beside, the appeal of Nature is to the Emotions; and words are weak things ... by which to convey or to evoke emotion. Words seem to be the vehicles rather of ratiocination than of emotion. If, in these pages, there are scattered speculations semi-mystical, semi-intelligible, perhaps even transcending the boundaries of rigid logic, I must simply aver that i put in writing that only which was given me to say.
Arnold Haultain -
I'm not much of a storyteller with words!
Brad Mehldau -
On my heart in beautiful calligraphy You’ve written words that only You and I can know. Their secret You promised to reveal one day but now I see You were only teasing.
Rumi -
I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this kind of language as ars poetica - if we can find the right combination of words, we can make something improbably or extraordinary happen.
Anna Journey -
Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
Michel Foucault -
If I said any more it would just be a lie; you can't use words to corral something this wild.
Ben Weaver
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With a lot of songs, songs that don't make a good statement, I forget the words.
Glen Campbell -
What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.
Ann Reed -
Words and ideas can change or influence the mind just like music can - yes, like a spell. Regarding the effect of my "spells" I think it varies; my music communicates with some, and I think it has had a positive influence on the minds of those who like it. I hope it helped them see the world from a different perspective.
Varg Vikernes Burzum -
Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.
Ananda Coomaraswamy -
The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are meant to sing and to make words sing. Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody? 'Your very own words,' indeed! And who are you?
Brion Gysin -
One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it.
Dalai Lama
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Words shld be free. Release them from their sentences.
Amy King -
But a person’s smell and their alarms and borrowed shirts and secret words linger for a long time. Much longer than a house.
Catherynne M. Valente -
The right words are always there, if a man's sharp enough to see them.
Conn Iggulden -
He's an emotional guy, but I don't believe what went on the field tonight outside of baseball deserves any words.
Carlos Zambrano -
I say a lot of things - millions of words a day - so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement.
Hillary Clinton -
Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing.
Ahdaf Soueif
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We not only speak but think and even dream in words. Language is a mirror in which the whole spiritual development of mankind reflects itself. Therefore, in tracing words to their origins, we are tracing simultaneously civilization and culture to their real roots.
Ernest Klein -
They, the women, were like the gargoyles, Mattie thought. Respected in words, but hidden from view of those who ran the city and managing to live in the darkness, in the secret interstices of life.
Ekaterina Sedia -
Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.
Kate Tempest -
I like to look up the formal definitions of words that I'm already familiar with and sometimes you find out a word means something you didn't already think of, you know? I looked up the definition of "upset" and it was something like, "To be filled with uneasiness and anxiety," and I feel like that all the time, so I was like, "That's appropriate." But also it's a name that when you hear it, you wouldn't assume that it's any certain type of band. It kind of has room to grow into and make it redefine the word.
Ali Koehler