A Quote by Charles Baudelaire

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

Charles Baudelaire

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Charles Baudelaire
French - Poet
April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867

There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

Charles Baudelaire

The discipline of programming is most like sorcery. Both use precise language to instruct inanimate objects to do our bidding. Small mistakes in programs or spells can lead to completely unforseen behavior: e.g., see the story, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice". Neither study is easy: "...her [Galinda's] early appetite for sorcery had waned once she'd heard what a grind it was to learn spells and, worse, to understand them." from the book "Wicked" by G. Maguire.

Richard E. Pattis

The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

Leo Tolstoy

I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is absurd.

Frederick Lenz

The Way of Heaven does not complete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation.

Laozi

I think the language of science is highly lyrical and evocative and an important part of our lives in many ways.

Pattiann Rogers

You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.

Pablo Picasso

Those who practice lower sorcery hurt themselves the most because they interact with negative thoughts and apply power to them; they devastate their own consciousness and their own lives.

Frederick Lenz

The way anything is developed is through practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice and more practice.

Joyce Meyer

What Bradbury had that most other science-fiction writers didn't have at that time was a love for beautiful language, evocative description, and haunting phrases that would stick with the reader.

Robert J. Sawyer

If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary.

Michel Thomas

How do we describe the fact of human existence? At a certain point, perhaps, style fails us. Language, even and in particular at its most evocative, becomes less of an aid and more of a difficulty.

Katie Kitamura

People who have power, who think negatively of others and seek to injure them, are practicing a kind of voodoo, a lower sorcery.

Frederick Lenz

Sorcery breaks no law of nature because there is no Natural Law, only the spontaneity of natura naturans, the tao. Sorcery violates laws which seek to chain this flow– priests, kings, hierophants, mystics, scientists & shopkeepers all brand the sorcerer enemy for threatening the power of their charade, the tensile strength of their illusory web.

Hakim Bey

I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they're just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.