Word Quotes

Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.

We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.

Her soul belongs to words and books. Every time she reads, she is home.

I never valued the meaning of words that much, Until I realized how healing they are.

Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.

We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.

For words of rapture groping, they”Never such love,” swore “ever before was!”

Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…

The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.