Make Words Quotes
10 quotes by 10 authors
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Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.
— Ben Marcus
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Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters make words; figures…
— Mal Peet
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Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of…
— David Crystal
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Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like…
— Black Elk
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When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more…
— Lewis Carroll
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A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer…
— Walt Whitman
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The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are…
— Brion Gysin
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A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
— Jay-Z
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I discover poetry when I was in elementary school and I was so fascinated by it. Because I realised if you get the right amount…
— Taylor Swift
Who Wrote These Make Words Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 10 Make Words Quotes as follows: