Language Quote by Jimmy Santiago Baca Download Open image ““The word was the ember and the forest was my life.”” — Jimmy Santiago Baca ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Life Writing
“Ember, the bad comes in with the good. And I want all of it—I want your secrets, your worry, your pain. I love you—you’re… — Laura Thalassa Copy Share Image
“Ember, you're the only piece of me I have left. Everything else-my family, my home, my soul - they're all gone. I don't know… — Kristen Simmons Copy Share Image
“After weeks in the forest, the woods embrace us as their own, and the wilderness hums softly, attuned to our souls.” — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
“I wanted to be a tree so that I could listen for trouble in the woods.” — Jennifer Lynch Copy Share Image
“I have lived knowing nothing of the forest so there is nothing I can teach you. Go into the wild. Know the world…” — Mamoru Hosoda Copy Share Image
“Forest! They seek your trees to sleep among, With their long sentences hung. Forest!” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I have an entire forest living inside of me and you have carved your initials into every tree.” — Pavana पवन Copy Share Image
“She loved everything about the forest, from its perfectly contained cycle of life and death to the soft light that peeked through the tree… — Christiana Miller Copy Share Image
I culled poetry from odors, sounds, faces, and ordinary events occurring around me. Breezes bulged me as if I were cloth; sounds nicked their… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
“They turn the water off, so I live without water, they build walls higher, so I live without treetops, they paint the windows black,… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
I do know that if you can name certain things and understand them, it allows you to make better choices. Unfortunately, there's so much… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
“It's the process of making-do, of the life I've lived between breakdowns and break-ups, that has made life worth living. I could not bear… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
I can't stand the comfort zone. So many people I know, their parents give them their homes, and they get married and have children,… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
Literacy is freedom, and everyone has something significant to say, — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
I sat back in my wooden chair as they signed the paperwork and stared down at the arm rests, studying the various layers of… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
Americans would have a right to go to war with the Iraqis if we could name one author from Iraq. It disturbs me that… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
We're all self-destructive when we're young. We all rebel. If we don't, there's something wrong. But when a Chicano kid's in a rebellious state,… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
I believe it's our responsibility as citizens to get in there and not accept the constant failure of prisons to deal with racism, lack… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
You've got to invite Native Americans to the table, and Asians, and Chicanos. You cannot keep us in the back room anymore and give… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
