Words Quotes
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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?
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When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.
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My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.
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We name us and then we are lost, tamed. I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness.
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Inside him, twenty years dissolved and mixed into one complex, swirling whole. Everything that had accumulated over the years-- all he had seen, all the words he has spoken, all the values he had held-- all of it coalesced into one solid, thick pillar in his heart, the core of which was spinning like a potter's wheel. Wordlessly, Tengo observed the scene, as if watching the destruction and rebirth of a planet.
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These words were small and they only meant what they said, not how they felt before he said them. He nearly wept with the frustration of it.
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You don't have to be 'adults'... but be someone who can take responsibility for their own words and actions. Believe it or not, that's actually harder.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it elsewhere entirely.
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I love the interplay between words and pictures. I love the fact that in comics, your pictures are acting like words, presenting themselves to be read.
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Music can often say a lot more than words. It can transform people’s mood, and, through association, can define whole periods of your life.
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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.
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Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.
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Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
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But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
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The few words of a title are the hardest words for any author to come up with.
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Just because I said lyrics are a sign of the inability to sing doesn't mean....A I believe that, or B I don't think they're cool. They are cool. Words are great. I sing along with my favorite songs, but when I am drumming and singing, the words become a note that for me. In the process of playing they have more emotional impact as notes then an actual word.
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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.
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I just like to express myself in the world around me. And I love writing, but sometimes it feels a little too minute. Sometimes, at the end of the day, there's just not enough colors involved - visually, there are just words on a page.
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Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.
Etel Adnan
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Self-reliance is not just words, but deeds.
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There will be people who don't like you or aren't convinced. I'd rather let my work talk than justify in words.
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A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.
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Before you speak, ask yourself this question: will your words improve the silence?
