Committed Quote by John Muir

I learned to love the feel of good words.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood So that I could break the rule I learnt all the words and…

— Mahmoud Darwish

What lives in words is what words were needed to learn.

— Jane Hirshfield

I loved English literature - if didn't it would have been hard - but I had to learn it myself. I remembered ways to…

— Benjamin Clementine

Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.

— S.M. Stirling

“The English departments were clogged with worthy but outworn and backwardlooking scholars whose tastes in the moderns were most often superficial, random, and vulgar.…

— Robert Lowell

Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience…

— Lois Lowry

Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child. I liked to roll words over…

— Kate Forsyth

“One of the most common platitudes we heard was that “words failed.” But words were not failing us at all. It was not true…

— Aleksandar Hemon

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

— Michael Ondaatje

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in…

— Lionel Blue

“From this time I was most narrowly watched. If I was in a separate room any considerable length of time, I was sure to…

— Frederick Douglass