513 quotes found
“True eloquence consists of saying all that should be not all that could be said.”
“Even if language is a living evolving organism we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive it can get sick.”
“Our language one of our most precious natural resources deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands streams and whooping cranes.”
“His words were softer than oil yet they were drawn swords.”
“Change is legitimate and inevitable for our language is a mighty river picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there but growing ever wider and richer.”
“A word has its use Or like a man it will soon have a grave.”
“No matter how eloquently a dog may bark he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.”
“Every utterance is an event and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view therefore is that no word ever means the same thing twice.”
“It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed the deeper they burn.”
“If you can teach me a new word I'll walk all the way to China to get it.”
“Words are only painted fire a look is the fire itself.”
“If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.”
“We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.”
