Etymology Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The poets made all the words and therefore language is the archives of history, and, if we must say it, a sort of tomb…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“But remember that words are signals, counters. They are not immortal. And it can happen - to use an image you'll understand - it…

— Brian Friel

“Words are like shards of glass. By themselves they're worthless; however, when placed together in just the right way, they can become great works…

— Leigh M. Lane

“The existence of language is, in a way, a continual denigration of words.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

“The life these words speak of is not worth the ink they are written in… He now knows that the only words worth writing…

— Andreï Makine

“Words, I’ve come to learn, are pulleys through time. Portals into other minds. Without words, what remains? Indecipherable customs. Strange rites. Blighted hearts. Without…

— Alena Graedon

“philosophical writers after his time: nor again must his simplicity of thought and occasional quaintness be reproduced in the form of archaisms of language;…

— Herodotus

“Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and…

— Dean Koontz

“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

“He was in fact a poet without words, the more absorbed and endangered, that the springing waters were dammed back in his soul, where,…

— George MacDonald

“All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind, are of the imagination, are originally poetic words.”

— George MacDonald

“In twenty-four years of proofreading, flocks of words flew into my head through the windows of my soul. Some of them stayed on and…

— Rohinton Mistry