Word Quotes

Before I fell in live with words, with setting skies and singing birds – it was you I fell in love with first.

Words like ‘God’ and ‘Allah’ must go the way of ‘Apollo’ and ‘Baal’ or they will unmake our world.

Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it’s when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author.

You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve found life. I’m no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are ‘yours’ and which are ‘mine.’ It’s past sorting out.

The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.

As her words became poetry, the poetry became a song. As her heart became his, he became one with her.

I feel too much and I fall in love with words – poet.

You don’t move just because you want to go from this point to that point – the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.