quotations about words
A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.
EMILY DICKINSON
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"A Word is Dead"
No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.
ROGER ZELAZNY
Lord of Light
Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound,
Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
ALEXANDER POPE
An Essay on Criticism
Word -- that invisible dagger.
EMIL CIORAN
History & Utopia
I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
The Sound and the Fury
The beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.
THOMAS MANN
The Magic Mountain
All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN
We
Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don't play their game!
BEN STILLER
Zoolander
Words frequently surrender power to the opposer.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
The words of God are deeds.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.
HORACE MANN
Thoughts
Broadly speaking, short words are best, and the old words, when short, are best of all.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
speech on receiving the London Times Literary Award, November 2, 1949
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold;
Alike fantastic, if too new, or old:
Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
ALEXANDER POPE
An Essay on Criticism
Words are sometimes signs of ideas; sometimes of the want of them.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
In silence you can't hide anything ... as you can in words.
AUGUST STRINDBERG
The Ghost Sonata
Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.
DAN SIMMONS
Hyperion
When you doubt between two words, choose the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge: love simple ones, as you would native roses on your cheeks.
JULIUS CHARLES HARE
Guesses at Truth
Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.
GOETHE
Faust
What so wild as words are?
ROBERT BROWNING
A Woman's Last Word
Desires and words go hand in hand ... they are moved by the same intention to join together, to communicate, to establish bridges between people, whether they are spoken or written.
LAURA ESQUIVEL
Swift as Desire