Word Quotes

Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.

For a country without a past is nothing, a word That, hardly spoken, loses its meaning, A perishable wall destroyed by flame, An echo of animal emotions.

All these words are just a front. What I would really like to do is chain you to my body, then sing for days & days & days.

An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.

That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.

Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.