One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language. — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“Sometimes there are no words to help one's courage. Sometimes you just have to jump.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
“I send my words to you over the ether net like a message in a bottle...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Sometimes words aren’t needed for you to know a change has come upon you.” — Samantha Young Copy Share Image
Our language for describing emotions is very crude... that's what music is for, I guess. — Ben Goertzel Copy Share Image
How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the economy of words and forms: jokes, aphorisms, copywriting, advertising, that way of writing when meaning has to be… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life.… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I think the dirtiest word in the English language is retirement. When you do that, you get old and you get sick… — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
“To select a keyboard for a different language, on the Settings page select Device Options, and then Language and Dictionaries. Select the… — Amazon Copy Share Image
“Words can lie. Words can deceive and delude and conceal and avoid. But the things you do, how you move, how you… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
While I have questions about the language used in describing the two economic systems, I think people have fairly good gut sense… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Words ride on the energy of tone, its warmth or coldness; think of tone as the music of how words are expressed.… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind. The picture… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I believe on foreign policy that there is little difference between the Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. We… — Ben Cardin Copy Share Image
I feel like it's not so much a tradition as a system that has been codified over the centuries starting in the… — David Salle Copy Share Image
We often treat children as if they're not very competent to do anything on their own. So we make them stop learning… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
In English, you can find writers with a wonderful sense of humor, like Oscar Wilde. But in the French language, this is… — Jesus Franco Copy Share Image
This capacity for oversignifying, for reading in, is precisely what poets tap into, both in their own practice and in the poem… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
“Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Words have power? That sounds like you're into some Harry Potter juju. — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
Words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space. — Geoff Nicholson Copy Share Image
The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,” — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
“plural is generally formed from the singular by the addition of s or es.” — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
Wherever the Word comes without power its essential content is missed. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. — William Safire Copy Share Image
“ Sing to me in the language of leviathan, that I may know his name. ” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Words do not choose their company or discriminate among the people who use them.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image