Accents Quote by John Crowe Ransom

Words are miraculous things. They describe, captivate, provoke, vivify, encompass, pervade, inspire, preserve, and comfort. So much more than that, in fact, so as…

— Julian Whitaker

There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Philosophers can never hope finally to formulate these metaphysical first principles. Weakness of insight and deficiencies of language stand in the way inexorably. Words…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.

— Ingrid Bengis

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive…

— Basil Bunting

“Why the words are called the way they are? Why certain sounds represent certain words, with their own meaning?”

— Kimberly Loskov

But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words

— Haruki Murakami

And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?

— Owen Barfield

All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse that it…

— Terry Eagleton

I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this kind of…

— Anna Journey

Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

— Aldous Huxley

“Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.…

— Adrienne Rich