Andre Breton Quotes

Words are so lovable. How could you not love words?

Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.

Lyricists play with words.

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

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

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

I see magic in conversation and words, and music is purely speaking to others, isn't it?

I find love is the most vital part of life, of my art.

I have always, always loved words.

Poetry is music though, unfortunately, not all music is poetry. Because music has other carriers to take its message - beats, lyrics, singers, bass players - anyone in music can rise to make a major statement but in poetry there are only words to do the work. And they do sometimes have to sweat.

All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.

To me, a poem is almost like someone whispering to another person, or you hear the whispering in your head. I hope with my own poems that the reader feels a connection, soul to soul, that'll help us all feel a little less alone on the planet. And it does have the power to direct change. A writer can make the word 'dark' be something positive. You can relieve a word like 'hysterical' of its misogynistic implications. You can make the language your own. That's what poetry is about.

With time, people forget to say, "Darling I love you." just that word.

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

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

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

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

Love's a recurring theme through my work.

I've always loved rhyming. I love language.