Word Quotes

Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.

Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.

His words filled my heart to the brim. I loved him in a way id never be able to express in words. He was part of me. And i was part of him. Tethered together for the rest of eternity.

The people have to take part. They have to understand that they have the power to move things, and they must really commit themselves to change if they want it.

It’s impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky’ is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.

Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don’t leave out a single word.

The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning “heart.” Thus just as one’s heart, by pumping blood to one’s arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.