I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the... →
Margaret Mahy
Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words... →
Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex... →
That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.
Ella Maillart
Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.
The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.
Henry James Sumner Maine
God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by... →
Nicolas Malebranche
The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.
Stephane Mallarme
You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.
I don't think that three minutes of music on a commercial record is going to bring paradise, but I feel like there is power in music and power in... →
Kyp Malone