Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Words are but the signs of ideas.
I don't think there is such a thing as an idea without words, because your language is your thought.
Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority figure's words. As I am always sharing, 'wordswordswords' can become 'swordswordswords,' and we can kill or cure with either words or swords.
So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.
Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.
Words have a longevity that I do not have.
No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.