The central fact of my life has been the existence of…

There are no words, there's only the possibility of a moment even more incredible a little bit further down the road.

— Frederick Lenz

In its use of words poetry is just the reverse of science. Very definite thoughts do occur, but not because the words are so…

— David Daiches

“Validate my existence with your words and I will speak to you all the day long.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“God who spoke the world into existence with words is, in fact, the source of meaning of all words. My journey toward that discovery…

— Karen Swallow Prior

“Diamond Sutra says, 'Make no formed conceptions about the realness of existence nor about the unrealness of existence," or words like that. Handcuffs will…

— Jack Kerouac

“Language is the key to creation. Without it there would be nothing. For is it not written that the universe was spoken into existence…

— Val Edward Simone

The subject who speaks is situated in relation to the other. This privilege of the other ceases to be incomprehensible once we admit that…

— Claudia Rankine

“in the end it is words poetry. sunsets someone’s deep blue silk voice. mountain scents. someone’s smile. eyes. that we have no defenses against.”

— Sanober Khan

His [Death] voice is cold at first, John. It seems unfeeling. But if you listen without fear, you find that when he speaks, the…

— Martine Leavitt

The advice I continually give to young writers is this, "Learn to paint pictures with words." Not just once upon a time, but ...…

— Brian Jacques

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

— PJ Harvey

Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry.

— Robert Bringhurst

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place…

— P. J. Harvey

“When air becomes breath, and cells become sentient, Words become poetry, and facts become science.”

— Abhijit Naskar

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

— John Drinkwater