Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.
Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.
If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely.
Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.
The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest.
My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.
Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Owing to the vibratory power of words, whatever man voices, he begins to attract.
Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.
The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words.
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