WORDS QUOTES VIII

quotations about words


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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

HENRY ADAMS
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The Education of Henry Adams


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Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Stone Gods

Tags: Jeanette Winterson


I am not for imposing any sense on your words: you are at liberty to explain them as you please. Only, I beseech you, make me understand something by them.

GEORGE BERKELEY

Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

Tags: George Berkeley


There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

Tractacus Logico-Philosophicus


Words like violence
Break the silence
Come crashing in
Into my little world

DEPECHE MODE

"Enjoy the Silence"


Words are but the shining garments of Thought.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"The Song of the Soul"

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Words are so last year.

BEANO

Twitter post, March 31, 2017


Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf.

WILLIAM H. GASS

A Temple of Texts

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Words are powerful, especially when they become actions.

PETE WILSON

"Words are powerful, especially when they become actions", Brazil Times, March 5, 2017


As the bud a leaf, so at last the thought becomes a word.

RICHARD GARNETT

De Flagello Myrtes

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Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?

THOMAS MANN

Freud and the Future

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Talking, talking, spinning a spell, pale skin of words that closes me in like a coffin.

JOHN GARDNER

Grendel

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Thy words are like a cloud of winged snakes.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Prometheus Unbound

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Just pick words and put one of them after the other like a baby learning to walk, like a drunk carefully crossing the street.

WILLIAM GAY

Provinces of Night

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Concerning speech and words, the consideration of them hath produced the science of grammar. For man still striveth to reintegrate himself in those benedictions, from which by his fault he hath been deprived; and as he hath striven against the first general curse by the invention of all other arts, so hath he sought to come forth of the second general curse (which was the confusion of tongues) by the art of grammar.

FRANCIS BACON

The Advancement of Learning

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Theirs, too, is the word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

"Notes on an Elizabethan Play", The Common Reader


Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.

DORIS LESSING

The Golden Notebook

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I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.

LEWIS H. LAPHAM

Harper's Magazine, November 2010

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The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.

EUGENE IONESCO

Present Past / Past Present

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I hated the words. Each one was like a big live insect in my mouth.

GLEN DUNCAN

Talulla Rising

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