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"A word after a word after a word is power." ~ Margaret Atwood

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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, Robert Bresson (Revised)

All words are pegs to hang ideas on. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, Plymouth Pulpit

A good word is like a good tree whose root is firmly fixed and whose top is in the sky. ~ The Koran

Syllables govern the world. ~ John Seldon, Pronunciation and Phonetics

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

Although they are only breath, words which I command are immortal. ~ Sappho

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

All words should do is to lend silence form. ~ Etty Hillesum

As soon as it goes out of your mouth it goes to the world. ~ Japanese Proverb

Bare lists of words are found suggestive, to an imaginative and excited mind. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be aware that even if you meant your words as honey, other people can turn what you said into poison. ~ Don Miguel Ruiz

Be careful with words. ~ George Carlin

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