Words

"She might not have read many books. But when she reads a book, she swallows the very words. If you open the books on her shelves, you will find that the front and back covers encase white pages."

"Words are better than weapons, wisdom is better than war."

"In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is the art of pairing unique quotations with complementary images in order to express thought-provoking ideas, challenging concepts, profound sentiments'."

"The early dew-falls that did a pristine coating,over the woods with its finest transparency,glazed as like its wet white-glassy earrings that hung on the ears of wild flowers—unlatched my fancy."

"My heart's been broken in a thousand pieces I've lived and died a thousand times And in each of those lifetimes With all of those pieces I chose you…A million times."

"If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions."

"I stopped writing in the obvious. I wrote how I saw it and if they don’t understand it, that’s fine."

"Poetry is breathing words that gives a reader pause."

"What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say."

"What a curious power words have."

"But words are things, and a small drop of ink,      Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think;      ’T is strange, the shortest letter which man uses Instead of speech, may form a lasting link      Of ages; to what straits old Time reduces Frail man, when paper — even a rag like this, Survives himself, his tomb, and all that’s his."

"If you are a Buddhist, inspire yourself by thinking of the bodhisattva. If you are a Christian, think of the Christ, who came not to be served by others but to serve them in joy, in peace, and in generosity. For these things, these are not mere words, but acts, which go all the way, right up to their last breath. Even their death is a gift, and resurrection is born from this kind of death. (157)"

"When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.", The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]"

"I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant... I AM HAUNTED BY HUMANS."

"They took one look at me,And hated my black face. They took one look at me,And decided on my fate. They took one look at me,And forced an unknown fear. They took one look at me,And caused the shed of tears. They took one look at me,And decided I was wrong. They took one look at me,And now I'm singing the slave mans song..."

"I have fallen,for your words. They are like,a gossamer cobweb,I have been,embroiled,decoyed,snared into!Incapacitated. I fail to escape. I fail to liberate. Your words,didn't redeem,made me a,captive instead."

"The value of ones heart is in the reminders of what fills it,words may sustain for a while but actions will always be the hope"

"If this turns to friendship, it only means That one of us will suffer. That when we meet after the worst of endings,There will only be this skein of words between us—Most of them for boredom, fewer for loneliness—Rising out of our mutual space of breath, leaving Behind a bluer sky each moment of departure. And one of us will cling on to its blue,Hung on partings like a muted cloud, while The other rides on a wing of word away from here."

"He knew his words could not convey the impossible love he felt for her, so he held her stare and hoped (prayed!) she would understand the immensity of it all."

"Poetry flows from our hearts. It is like that mass of snow we call a glacier and when it starts its slow movement, it thaws all the icicles, which keep mounting within us, in the hope of receiving the warmth of words."