Language Quote by Ritu Ghatourey

“Words become sentences, twisted, difficult/The story weaves itself, always noisiest at night/As herds of words won't stop. . . " Wildebeest of Words/Breathe In”

— Eileen Granfors

In good writing, words become one with things.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables…

— Gaston Bachelard

“We hear them continually on TV: hence they occur first when it is our turn to talk. In this regard, talk may be said…

— Jacques Barzun

Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into the nethersphere.…

— Inga Muscio

“Words are like physical objects around us that appear to be continuous and whole but are in fact composed of particles too small for…

— Christina Meldrum

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

— Eduardo Galeano

“Words are abstraction, break off from the green; words are patterns in the way fences and trenches are. Words hurt. I can hide in…

— Amal El-Mohtar

There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

— Francis Bacon

Words can fall hard like a boulder loosed from a cliff. Words can drift unnoticed like a weed seed on a breeze. Words can…

— Shannon Hale

Sometimes words come out of me and I don't know where they come from or why. They're like falling stars tumbling through the universe;…

— Glenda Millard

A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.

— Amin Maalouf