Power Of Words Quotes - Page 5

I wasn’t reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A–Z.But this was different.I started to cry.(…)The unfamiliar and beautiful play made things bearable that day, and the things it made bearable were another failed family—the first one was not my fault, but all adopted children blame themselves. The second failure was definitely my fault.I was confused about sex and sexuality, and upset about the straightforward practical problems of where to live, what to eat, and how to do my A levels.I had no one to help me, but the T.S. Eliot helped me.So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange and stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is.It isn’t a hiding place. It is a finding place.

Oversight versus Insight: Most of us want to oversee the situation without insight of the situation. Knowledge is King.

Don’t interrupt when your characters take a flight of their own.

Walk, act and speak in confident.

I’ve never been motivated by money – it doesn’t drive Me.

A writer gets to live yet another life every time she creates a new story.

Human communication and literature are all made of words; thus, it’s hard to overestimate their unbelievable power.

You can't hammer in a nail with words...""No, but you can start a war with them.

If you can weep with your words, the meaning of your heart can be written forever

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning.

Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.