"A word after a word after a word is power." ~ Margaret Atwood
Words are healers of the sick tempered. ~ Aeschylus
Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought. ~ Jules Renard
The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine. ~ Robert Bresson
All words are pegs to hang ideas on. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
A good word is like a good tree whose root is firmly fixed and whose top is in the sky. ~ The Koran
Maybe the words that I say is just another way to pray. ~ Curtis Mayfield
Syllables govern the world. ~ John Seldon
As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to fear. As long as our utterances keep their sound we have a voice. As long as our words keep their sense we have a soul. ~ Edmond Jabès
Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs. ~ Pearl Strachan
Working for High Times I learned that words like “free” and “brave” are negotiable. ~ Chris Simunek, Paradise Burning
All of my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. ~ Ernest Hemingway, 1945 letter
You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts. ~ Cochise