#language

Imagination is thinking beyond language. ↗

— Raheel Farooq

#language #thinking #imagination

When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#inspirational #language #virginia-woolf #writing-philosophy #inspirational

The ultimate language of yoga is expressed in doing yoga, a practice that transcends words as we open our lives to living more consciously through the infinite wisdom of the heart. ↗

— Mark Stephens

#inspirational #language #yoga #inspirational

In the beginning was the word, and primitive societies venerated poets second only to their leaders. A poet had the power to name and so to control; he was, literally, the living memory of a group or tribe who would perpetuate their history in song; his inspiration was god given and he was in effect a medium. ↗

— Kevin Crossley-Holland

#language #poet #poetry #spoken #word

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#importance #language #words #life

I am firmly of the opinion that people who can’t speak have nothing to say. It’s one more thing we do to the poor, the deprived: cut out their tongues … allow them a language as lousy as their life ↗

— William H. Gass

#life

I'm made mute by the virtue of decision And I choose most of your life goes on without me Oh the fear I've known That I might reap the praise of strangers and end up on my own All I've sown was a song But maybe I was wrong ↗

— Emily Saliers

#kiss #language #life

Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute. ↗

— Robert Herrick

#love #tears #tomgue #true #words

The arithmetic of love defied intuition: only when given away did it multiply. ↗

— Barbara Wright

#love

The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#humor #humour #language #seriousness #men