Words Quotes

"There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions. And words." "Words are spades digging the cairns of those who can't speak" "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness" "After all is said and done, more is said than done" "Words and eggs must be handled with care. Once broken they are impossible things to repair" "There are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven you can't say on television. What a ratio that is. 399,993 to 7. They must really be bad. They’d have to be outrageous to be separated from a group that large" "I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty" "All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead." "I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything." "If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?" "When ideas fail, words come in handy" "Words without thoughts never to heaven go." "A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow" "Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own." "The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if we cannot understand them"