3,439 Quotes About Words

In the vastness of the cosmos, thoughts become reality; words become flesh.

Words floating in air, lines cut on a page, stanzas carved into units. Poetry is a mode of associative thinking that takes a different route to knowledge than philosophy, its ancient antagonist. It follows its own wayward but resolute path.

There is great power & authority in words. The kind of power depends on the kinds of words. We can curse ourselves by speaking negativity & evil or we can bless ourselves by speaking positively. We reap what we sow. We sow words & reap according to what we have sown.

Ink, dark as night, creates words, and as they are read, they become the little beads and baubles of the mind.

The last stroke of midnight dies.All day in the one chairFrom dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have rangedIn rambling talk with an image of air:Vague memories, nothing but memories.

Someone taught you to swallow your words and now you're throwing up thoughts.

mind the angels my lovemind also those wordsdragging across our lips

Pigeons fly, and they have no word for it.

To confuse things with their names, that is the danger of words.