3,439 Quotes About Words

Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)

If I cannot speak what I think, then it's a crime just to be me.

I sometimes hold it half a sinTo put in words the grief I feel;For words, like Nature, half revealAnd half conceal the Soul within.But, for the unquiet heart and brain,A use in measured language lies;The sad mechanic exercise,Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er,Like coarsest clothes against the cold:But that large grief which these enfoldIs given in outline and no more.In Memoriam A.H.H. Section 5

Perfectly written isn't human, exact replicas aren't flawless and thinking you have to achieve them all is futile. Seek to write and create what deeply moves you and only then will the words and work you create feel perfectly flawless.

...if you do not even understand what words say,how can you expect to pass judgementon what words conceal?

I was seized by the strange unfounded idea that she was debating whether or not to say "I love you". But the difference between us was that she assumed people just knew those sorts of things, while I was always worried that they didn't.

Poetry is Music with Love for Words & Power of Voice.

He ate and drank the precious words,His spirit grew robust;He knew no more that he was poor,Nor that his frame was dust.He danced along the dingy days,And this bequest of wingsWas but a book. What libertyA loosened spirit brings!

You see how I tryTo reach with wordsWhat matters mostAnd how I fail.