Verbal Representation Quotes

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.

When a party shall make bond or conveyance, what he has named by word-of-mouth that shall hold good

My belief is that nothing that can be expressed by mathematics cannot be expressed by careful use of literary words.

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.

There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.

With a poem you can say 'I got my feeling into words for myself. I now have the equivalent in words for that much of what I have felt.'

Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.

What lives in words is what words were needed to learn.

Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal

It's been noted that writing about the production of art is a masquerade or metaphor for writing about writing. This may be true, there are similarities - both the verbal and the visual represent the thing or the concept.

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines - some of which, alas, you can see also in this Siege - I construct Aristotelian Machines, that allow anyone to see with Words.

Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.

Words are a completely different form of expression. The word P-E-N-I-S is an entirely different form of communication than a photograph of the same thing. H

Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.