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What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Alexander Pope

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

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

It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient.

Henri Poincare

Geometry

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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.