I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“she considered a language that could carry nothing but love and simple truth.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Two people cannot be alone together for upwards of half an hour without one emerging as the superior. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The aim is never to become a master of the Word, but to be mastered by it. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that the 'real world' is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that… — Steve Hackett Copy Share Image
“I have learned to avoid this. The goal is to communicate, not to impress readers with your vocabulary.” — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
“She had always wanted words, she loved them, grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. Whereas I thought… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“When all are one sentience, Language withers and fades away. Let's sit together and speak in silence, Let's be light to each… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“My Japanese isn’t much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid.” — Gil Asakawa Copy Share Image
Education, especially business education will only give you tools. What you do with these tools is all that matters. Life and business… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
“Philosophy may be sometimes hard to grasp, but it is profoundly meaningful. Mudding the waters under the pretense of doing something meaningful… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I'm one for new things: I like new technology, I like new music, I'm not entrenched in some view of what culture… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
'm constantly depressed by the Mexican gang members I meet in East L.A. who essentially live their lives inside five or six… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange. It is only by alienating the… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Good design today requires more vision (a larger point of view versus the single brilliant idea), more consistency (a deeper underlying structure… — William Drenttel Copy Share Image
“Although I don't use it nearly so much anymore, I've decided, five years down the line, that Mr. Treadstone's verdict on 'kind… — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
“ Language as a Prison The Philippines did have a written language before the Spanish colonists arrived, contrary to what many of… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Words are like leaves; some wither every year, and every year a younger race succeed. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
“The success of language in conveying information is highly overrated. ” — Robert Bolton Copy Share Image
Journalism is one set of tools - one toolkit I have. One vocabulary, one lens. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Poetry is a way to express yourself, you can give one word a thousand meanings — Kendyl Smith Copy Share Image
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It's just words and words mean nothing. Only action does."-- Aiden” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you. — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
If I see someone out there mouthing the words to a bit, I'm not having fun. — Ron White Copy Share Image
Everyone wants a hug and kiss. It translates into any language. — Georgette Mosbacher Copy Share Image
The word is a sound of some sort and that's where the energy comes from. — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand. — William Golding Copy Share Image
The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around. — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
