Words - Quotes
And pray that I may forget
These matters that with myself I too much discuss
Too much explain
Because I do not hope to turn again
Let these words answer
For what is done, not to be done again
May the judgement not be too heavy upon us
Because these wings are no longer wings to fly
But merely vans to beat the air
The air which is now thoroughly small and dry
Smaller and dryer than the will
Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still.
I want to tell her how much she`s become the center of my being. But I can`t. The words won`t come.
Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been."
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Where is this love? I can`t see it, I can`t touch it. I can`t feel it. I can hear it. I can hear some words, but I can`t do anything with your easy words.
People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven`t you?
How easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.
Music embodies feeling without forcing it - as it is forced in its other manifestations, in most arts and especially in the art of words - to contend and combine with thought.
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.
The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no" - are those which require the most thought.
Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.