“I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.”
“Toppling sounds like it jumped from a tall building and landed gracefully on is g.”
“Take care of your words and the words will take care of you.”
“Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.”
“The act of order (in a sentence) is also an act of creative limitation”
“Words are loneliness.”
“What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities.”
“Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.”
“How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?”
“A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. ”
“I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.”
“Words have weight.”
“I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.”
“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, It might have been.”
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
“For last year s words belong to last year s language And next year s words await another voice.”
“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.”