Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing…

For me words still possess their primitive, mystical, incantatory powers. I am inclined to use them as part of an attempt to make my…

— Ingrid Bengis

“...words possess power, whether they are names given to children, curses spoken to enemies, blessings offered to our loved ones, or even haphazard advice…

— Chris Seay

“Why certainly, words possess power.  They do!  But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.

— Virginia Woolf

The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words do have…

— Aldous Huxley

Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

— Ingrid Bengis

The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the…

— Eugene Ionesco

There's a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn't…

— John Towner Williams

Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will…

— Frederic Raphael

“Punctuation is to words as cartilage is to bone, permitting articulation and bearing stress.”

— John Lennard

The theoretical recognition of the split-space of enunciation may open the way to conceptualising an international culture, based not on the exoticism of multiculturalism…

— Homi K. Bhabha

The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the history of…

— Susan McClary

Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say.

— Etgar Keret

In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything I've ever…

— Toni Morrison

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

— William Trevor