3,439 Quotes About Words

With silence comes mindfulness, and thus we become better at choosing our words with kind intent before we express them.

I only know that learning to believe in the power of my own words has been the most freeing experience of my life. It has brought me the most light. And isn't that what a poem is? A lantern glowing in the dark.

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

Never underestimate wisdom in silence, proof isn't always a mouthful of words.

My books are a word feast.

It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.

Books---in them is engraved the constellation of words, the cluster of stars that a pen brings down from the sky to the leaf....

...his words - the gift of expression, the bewildering, the iluminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness.

Becareful when impression takes the place of expression in your intention