Century Quote by Charles Bukowski

“Words are man’s first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe; what wonder if he loved words and attributed…

— Aldous Huxley

“Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things”

— Ilyas Kassam

“It is (according to one’s point of view) either a wonderful piece of luck or a wise provision of God’s, that poetry which was…

— C.S. Lewis

“The power of language – it can heal and build, or corrupt, poison, destroy, desecrate, annihilate…”

— Daniel S. Fletcher

“Power had its own silent language, one that screamed. It combined tiny, effortless shows of arrogance with bigger, louder displays—of wealth, of violence.”

— Kit Rocha

“The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.”

— Felix Alba-Juez

“When one is highly alert to language, then nearly everything begs to be a poem.”

— James Tate

“The language of power was exercised in more than just words. It was presence and thought; it was gesture and timing.”

— Elizabeth Chadwick

“The most powerful of words are the one seldom spoken”

— Kaelo Setogang

“If a gesture is the most powerful command that you have, then words mean very little.”

— Lujan Matus

“It is a cherishable irony that a language that succeeded almost by stealth, treated for centuries as the inadequate and second-rate tongue of peasants,…

— Bill Bryson

“Poetry is a principle of power invoked by all of us against our vanishing.”

— Allen Grossman