Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Words are the mind's wings, are they not?

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

Speech is the small change of silence.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.

I've always loved rhyming. I love language.

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.

Thought is made in the mouth.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

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.

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.

Man can no more think without words than see without light.

I work a lot on words, so if I hear a word or see a word or a phrase or a sentence that someone says to me it just immediately sparks a concept.

If you're ever struggling for something to say, just take a noun and verbalize it. Using simple words in new and interesting ways will creativize your presence.

I still believe in the power of the word, that words inspire.

We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns. You have never spoken before.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.