Tells

Famous quotes containing the word tells:

    Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    One can write out of love or hate. Hate tells one a great deal about a person. Love makes one become the person. Love, contrary to legend, is not half as blind, at least for writing purposes, as hate. Love can see the evil and not cease to be love. Hate cannot see the good and remain hate. The writer, writing out of hatred, will, thus, paint a far more partial picture than if he had written out of love.
    Jessamyn West (1902–1984)

    my gentle-hearted Charles, to whom
    No sound is dissonant which tells of Life.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)