When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!

The motto was "Pax," but the word was set in a circle of thorns.

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation.

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.

I guess the nicest thing about being, I won't say famous but being popular is a more proper word for me to use would be that if you've got a recognizable name, a lot of times you can get people to do things for you ordinarily that you wouldn't get done.

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.

Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.