With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.
Robin Wall KimmererStichwörter: words knowledge literacy clarity-of-perception
It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.
Haruki MurakamiHe could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself [...].
Kate ChopinStichwörter: words
Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary but couldn't get the hang of the story simply missed the point: namely, that it is a collection of short stories.
James Webb YoungStichwörter: words stories creativity
When I see a word held hostage to manhood I have to rescue it. Sweet trembling word, locked in a tower, tired of your Prince coming and coming.
Jeanette WintersonStichwörter: words sex language desire femininity masculinity
It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.
Terry PratchettAll words are possible, then, all names. They rain down, all these words, they disintegrate into a powdery avalanche. Belched from the volcano's mouth, they spurt in to the sky, then fall again. In the quivering air, like gelatine, the sounds trace their bubble paths. Can you imagine that?
J.M.G. Le ClézioI always knew that words are suitcases with false bottoms.
Hans KeilsonStichwörter: words
Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.
David QuammenStichwörter: words reading books literature
Words are power. The more words you know and can recognize, use, define, understand, the more power you will have as a human being... The more language you know, the more likely it is that no one can get over on you."
selection from book: Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy
Stichwörter: words poetry power language african-american
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