#word

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing. ↗

— W. S. Merwin

#get #joke #like #lost #making

My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. ↗

— Olivier Messiaen

#drama #faith #god #grand #i

The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands. ↗

— Beth Kephart

#talent #unrequited-love #words #beauty

I say 20 words in English. I say money, money, money, and I say hot dog! I say yes, no and I say money, money, money and I say turkey sandwich and I say grape juice. ↗

— Carmen Miranda

#english #grape #hot #hot dog #i

Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants. ↗

— Elizabeth Montagu

#bad #consequences #like #provokes #sword

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect. ↗

— Alan Moore

#home #intellect #leave #sword #without

Now comes the mystery! (last words) ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#heaven #last-words #life #paradise #death

The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#force #iron #only #sword #time

However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins. ↗

— Yukio Mishima

#words #art

Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves. ↗

— Gary North

#commands #contrary #denying #enforce #first