If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?
Emily DickinsonTags: poetry power-of-words
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.
Joseph ConradTags: inspirational writing power-of-words
The menu is not the meal.
Alan W. WattsTags: words philosophy power-of-words language metaphysics names nominalism
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.
Diane SetterfieldTags: books power-of-words
Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
Douglas AdamsTags: power-of-words language
I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.
Markus ZusakTags: power-of-words
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Ludwig WittgensteinTags: perception power-of-words language
silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.
Tags: remaining-silent power-of-words language
Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.
Patrick RothfussTags: words power-of-words language description
When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought.
Eckhart TolleTags: power-of-words wonder
Page 1 of 9.
next last »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.