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Words, words, word. Once, I had the gift. I could make love out of words as a potter makes cups of clay. Love that overthrows empire. Love that binds two hearts together, come hellfire & brimstone. For sixpence a line, I could cause a riot in a nunnery. But now -- I have lost my gift. It's as if my quill is broken, as if the organ of my imagination has dried up, as if the proud -illegible word- of my genius has collapsed. Jeffrey Eugenides
Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words? Oscar Wilde
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. Aldous Huxley
Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange. It is only by alienating the desired that language masters it. The frenzy of desire in the medium of words yields the mania of the catalogue. I struggle with the proverbs of hell. J. M. Coetzee
Ralph Ellison quote: "Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are..."
Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question. Ralph Ellison
Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions. Sigmund Freud
Words move, music moves. Only in time; but that which is only living. Can only die. Words, after speech, reach. Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach. The stillness... T. S. Eliot
W. H. Auden quote: "Words have no word for words that are not true."
Words have no word for words that are not true. W. H. Auden
Doris Lessing quote: "Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination,..."
Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want. Doris Lessing
William Shakespeare quote: "Words, words, words."
Words, words, words. William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare quote: "Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart."
Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart. William Shakespeare
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power. Amy Tan
Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them , joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end. Paulo Coelho
Words - I wonder if you can realize how much I love them. You are too much preoccupied with mere things and ideas and people to understand the full beauty of words. Your mind is not a literary mind. Aldous Huxley
Sigmund Freud quote: "Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing,..."
Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power. Sigmund Freud

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