Quotes on Language And Power

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.