Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy
The speech of my heart will be carried on in murmurings of a song.
Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words
The people I know who swear the most tend to have the widest vocabularies.
Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
Shakespeare is the best writing ever. It's incredibly rich, dense, expressive language.
Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.
It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.
The essence of poetry is will and passion.
What's great about good writing is that it feels like life, so it's not hard to relate to her circumstances.
I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.
Words can travel thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be as beautiful as gems, as lovely as flowers.
I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the more completely it is thought.
God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.
Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.
Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge.
Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.
We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.
Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It’s the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.
Prose is walking; poetry is flying
He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner.
The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.
Take my verses too serious ya hate me, cause I'm the one to paint a vivid picture, no HD.
