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I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation. — Mary Oliver

I have woken up to find that I am made of words. — Marcel Theroux

I wanted a library like this ... [] A cave of words that I'd made myself. — Maggie Stiefvater

Be thou assured, if words be made of breath,
And breath of life, I have no life to breath
What thou hast said to me. — William Shakespeare

Better than a thousand sayings
Made up of useless words
Is one word of meaning
Which calms you to hear it. — Anonymous

Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought. — Jules Renard

The world is made up of words. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words. — William Carlos Williams

A poem is a small machine made out of words. — William Carlos Williams

Words are for explaining the mistakes we might have made, names are for calling when there is nothing left to say. — Gordon Lightfoot

Don't take her from me, he whispered fiercely, hoping the words wrenched from the depths of his soul somehow made it to God's ears. — Maya Banks

Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them. — Zora Neale Hurston

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still. — Arthur Rimbaud

A poem is a spider web
Spun with words of wonder,
Woven lace held in place
By whispers made of thunder. — Charles Ghigna

I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings. — Charles Lamb

It seems to me like a failure of language that experience fits into a regular sentence made up of ordinary words. It fits into one word. "Experience. — Ann Brashares

Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions. — Jack Kerouac

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

YOUR WORDS ARE MADE OF THE AIR I BREATHE. — Amy King

He had no words for it, what made him, what pained him, what rocked him and fucked him. — Cheryl Strayed

I shrieked incoherent, made up swear words as the pain stopped messing bent me over, and made me its bitch — Nicole Peeler

'Politics' is made up of two words, 'poli,' which is Greek for 'many,' and 'tics,' which are blood-sucking insects. — Gore Vidal

Perhaps, after all, this world was made of dreams, and an old man had merely found the words for them. — Cornelia Funke

I am made of words. Cut me & I bleed sentences. Read me, & I speak to your soul. — Chloe Thurlow

Hence? My habit of reading more than I socialized made me use odd, awkward words without thinking. — April Genevieve Tucholke

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right. — Markus Zusak

Use the words "I feel because I" to remind us that what we feel it isn't because of what the other person did, but because of a choice I've made. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

Sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words. — Emma Donoghue

Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory. — William Kennedy

But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head. — Samuel Beckett

Making products we sell around the world, stamped with three proud words, 'Made in the USA! — Barack Obama

The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers. — Wilson Follett

there are untruths made of words and untruths made of silences, — Lauren Groff

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day. — Jim Bishop

Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Words used to be all I had. Now even they have deserted me. — Trishna B. Made It Up Myself

The word Universe is made up of two Latin words- uni (meaning "one") and versus (meaning "turned into"). It literally means "one turned into. — Chris Prentiss

You had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words. — C.S. Lewis

Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind. — George R R Martin

Our words must count. Hunger will not wait for promises we made. — Sami Yusuf

Anger made for hasty decisions and rash words that sometimes were hard to take back. — Robert Jordan

I fell in love with words and I think that made my mom smile. I think that was cool for her. — Nas

If human beings weren't 'dumbable' enough to be made soldiers, war would be nothing but an exchange of swear words between a handful of individuals. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry. — Robert Bringhurst

Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key. — Rumi

They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words. — Susan Glaspell

We can only be enlightened to the meaning of wise words
only and only if life have put and made us requiring them. — Toba Beta

If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are — Eduardo Galeano

A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words ... Statements are made, words or sentences are used. — J.L. Austin

Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Archie says -Science- the same way he says -Modern-, as if someone has lent him the words and made him swear not to break them. — Zadie Smith

Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart — Stephen R. Lawhead

It was those words that made me fall in love with him. Right there in that spot. Because he wanted me to be like him. That was his normalcy. — Amber L. Johnson

Something made out of words... — Matthew Small

Sometimes the answer is in the question. — Cristina Smith

All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm ... — Dorothy Osborne

Words stretch the muscles of the imagination. Continual placid acceptance of ready-made visual images turns the imagination into a couch-potato. — Susan Cooper

The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words. — Thornton Wilder

I cannot recall the words of my first poem but I remember a promise I made my pen never to leave it lying in somebody else's blood. — Audre Lorde

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. — Swami Vivekananda

You tell me that magic is just desire made real. Maybe spells are nothing more than words that you believe with all your heart, — Deborah Harkness