Pastoral Resources

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

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

Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.

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

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.

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.

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

Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.

In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.