#words

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#combination #drawn #naturally #poetry #rhyme

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#best #blake #composed #conviction #judgment

What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself. ↗

— Karl Rahner

#body #christ #explicit #expression #gives

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

#community #day #disease #each #eliminate

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

#decided #enormous #feel #films #humiliation

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#admire #i #others #poet #wordsworth

Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#attack #been #center #cheeks #death

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

#i think #matter #music #painting #subject

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#any #color #could #found #had

In love there are two things - bodies and words. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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