Famous quotes containing the words secret and/or words:
“The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high refinement of modern life, in arts, in sciences, in books, in men, to exact good faith, reality, and a purpose; and first, last, midst, and without end, to honor every truth by use.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Some words live in my throat
breeding like adders. Others know sun
seeking like gypsies over my tongue
to explode through my lips”
—Audre Lorde (b. 1934)