Quotes about Words

I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

When the style is fully formed, if it has a sweet undersong, we call it beautiful, and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax.

The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark is always one jump ahead of the decoding function, where another, unforeseen reading is always possible.

Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange. It is only by alienating the desired that language masters it. The frenzy of desire in the medium of words yields the mania of the catalogue. I struggle with the proverbs of hell.

Prose, in his experience, calls for many more words than poetry. There is no point in embarking on prose if one lacks confidence that one will be alive the next day to carry on with the task.

The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.

All those Zen Masters throwing young kids in the mud because they can't answer their silly word questions That's because they want them to discover that mud is better than words, boy.

This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.

Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test.

Wise women tuck Godly wisdom into the words they speak and even more into the words they choose not to speak.

Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed.

If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts.