Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.
When I go out to direct a film every day we prepare too much we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You know simple words lost in the quicksand of experience.
A song is a lot of things. But first of all a song is the voice of its time. Setting words to music gives them weight makes then somehow easier to say and it helps them to be remembered.
Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect and what they say has but little weight.
Action can give us the feeling of being useful but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.
Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight " he says. And died.
How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words with their weight fall upon the picture like birds of prey.
Big's voice trumpets as if from stage or pulpit; his words carry weight even pass the salt comes out of his mouth in a thou-shalt-Ten-Commandments kind of way.
A five-minute teacher understands that peers' words can carry a lot more weight than his or her own and there is nothing wrong with students doing the teaching.
Words have weight sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
I need words that mean more than they mean words not just with height and width but depth and weight and and other dimensions that I cannot even name.