...if you do not even understand what words say,
how can you expect to pass judgement
on what words conceal?
Tags: words poetry poets modernism conceal doolittle h-d hilda
I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.
Roger ZelaznyTags: words libraries books security libraries-shadows
...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?
H.D.The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshipers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.
C.S. LewisTags: words reading books literature longing
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
Orson Scott CardTags: words remaining-silent reticence restraint
How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.
Frances Hodgson BurnettTags: words animals soul communication language frances-hodgson-burnett little-princess
The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.
Markus ZusakI'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
Wisława SzymborskaTags: words reading books literature
Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.
Mark SloukaHere's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader's heart and a writer's, a connection that transcends the barriers of continents and generations and even death ... And here's the magic. You're different. You can never go back to being exactly the same person you were before you disappeared into that book.
Anthony DoerrTags: words reading books literature language
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