#words

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

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Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement. ↗

— Samuel Prout

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I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true. ↗

— Richard Pryor

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Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up. ↗

— Nizar Qabbani

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If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words. ↗

— Charlotte Rampling

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The only thing you have to know are your words. ↗

— Eva Gabor

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Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins. ↗

— Jules Renard

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Lying is done with words and also with silence. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. ↗

— George Eliot

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