Intense Words Quotes

“It is a mistake to use intense words without carefully weighing and measuring them, or they will have already been used when one needs them later.”
― Guy Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier

“It is deep January. The sky is hard.
The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.

It is in this solitude, a syllable,
Out of these gawky flitterings,

Intones its single emptiness,
The savagest hollow of winter-sound.”
― Wallace Stevens

“There were no doubts. My new friends obviously ‘collected’ men from different countries. I realized that therein lies their revenge on their errant husbands.”
― Mariia Manko, Through the Magic Sunglasses