#word

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. ↗

— Guy Debord

#embraces #erases #expressions #false #his

I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#names #power-of-words #rose

If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world? ↗

— Franny Billingsley

#words #love

Beneath her curls, I forget the world, With a mere gaze she raises my hopes of gold. Love is as much in her heart as in mine, But she doesn’t say it, her punishment so divine. ↗

— Faraaz Kazi

#love-poem #romance #unsaid-words #love

Harper, treat your words with care For they may cause joy or despair Sing your songs of health and love Of dragons flaming from above ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#love

Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child. I liked to roll words over my tongue like a lump of molten honeycomb, savouring the sweetness, the crackle, the crunch. ↗

— Kate Forsyth

#kate-forsyth #love-of-words #writing #love

Disappear, she says. I love that word. ↗

— Will Christopher Baer

#words #love

live well laugh often and love much ↗

— Bessie Anderson Stanley

#love

I love bright words, words up and singing early; Words that are luminous in the dark, and sing; Warm lazy words, white cattle under trees; I love words opalescent, cool, and pearly, Like midsummer moths, and honied words like bees, Gilded and sticky, with a little sting. ↗

— Elinor Wylie

#love

Why do you have to be so damn cryptic? ↗

— Amanda Hocking

#strange #words #love