3,439 Quotes About Words

For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them up on the shelf in multicoloured rows: he watches over each of them with an old-fashioned gardener's delight, holds them like fragile objects in his thin, bloodless hands.

The things you name grow in power.

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me--I have no others.

The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves.

Jeg har valgt ordet og ikke et sværd.

We shape our lives around words, words whose meaning are always changing.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink,      Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think;      ’T is strange, the shortest letter which man uses Instead of speech, may form a lasting link      Of ages; to what straits old Time reduces Frail man, when paper — even a rag like this, Survives himself, his tomb, and all that’s his.

What you can see is as important as words that you say. It's not about talking the change; it’s about the change you can see, it’s about feeling it.

Be sure to bend but never break