Language And Power Quotes

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

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

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

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

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.

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.

Language is power, in ways more literal than most people think. When we speak, we exercise the power of language to transform reality. Why don’t more of us realize the connection between language and power?

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

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

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

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

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

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

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.