Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They are what we hold on with, nothing else. They are as valuable in themselves as rope with nothing to be tied to.

Jack Spicer

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I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul.

Henry Miller

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No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

Roger Zelazny

Mots clés words reality buddhism history humanity story memory narrative semiotics truthful



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Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.

Alberto Manguel

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We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.

Alberto Manguel

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Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myriad possibilities: the possibility of change, the possibility of illumination.

Alberto Manguel

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How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?

Eileen Wilks

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My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.

Patricia Briggs

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I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.

Ian Fleming

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I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.

George Eliot

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