Pastoral Resources

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

So the lover must struggle for words.

Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.

We don't know anything about racism. We've never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life?

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.

I take sounds and change them into words.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

I learned that you don't have to be all over the place, that you can be subtle and you can say what you say. The words that you put together can be just as hilarious as falling all over the place or doing something.

Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East.

In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.