Words
(page 5)
Where words fail, music speaks.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.
Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
I've always been jealous of rappers, because they can fit so many words into a song and tell a story with lots of details. But when you're a songwriter, you have to fit the words to the melody and you can't fit as much in. I'm just a big fan of storytelling.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
