Language Quote by George Edward Woodberry

“Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things.”

George Edward Woodberry

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

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The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.

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