#words

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#me #were #wordsworth

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#desert #indeed #inexpressible #seemed #thought

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats. ↗

— Irving Layton

#best #genius #i #i am #keats

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#biography #death #like #off #own

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people. ↗

— Judy Garland

#few #i #just #love #man

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#because #briefly #chiefly #far #few

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#beauty #care #choice #detail #execution

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#explanations #only #performance #promises #reality

I love cover songs, but I always mess up the words! ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#cover #i #i always #i love #love