#dictionary

abstraction, n. Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those nights when I sleep alone, when I curl into a pillow that isn't you, when I hear the tiptoe sounds that aren't yours. It's not as if I can conjure you up completely. I must embrace the idea of you instead. ↗

— David Levithan

#love #lover-s-dictionary #love

Love me less, but love me for a long time ↗

— David Levithan

#love #romance #love

If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word. ↗

— Dave Barry

#big #big enough #dictionary #enough #everything

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#eyes #i #me #need #quotations

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#combine #dictionary #evil #good #good and evil

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary. ↗

— David Lodge

#company #dictionary #each #end #laid

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#concerned #dictionary #dregs #elitist #ideas

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary. ↗

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

#dictionary #even #precede #remember #striving

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#dictionary #poetry #rhyming #seen #things

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. ↗

— George Chapman

#carry #clock #dictionary #earth #mere