Word

“Be careful what you say—you may have to eat your words.”

I don’t think so much about eating my words as about wearing them. When someone sees me, the words come back to haunt like a miasma around me. No matter how colourful my dress, bad words turn everything grey and muddy brown.

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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

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 – Horace (65-8 B.C.)
 – Epistles, bk. I, epistle xviii, l. 71

Without another word spoken on either side, the lodger took from his great trunk, a kind of temple, shining as of polished silver, and placed it carefully on the table.

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There it was, word for word,
The poem that took the place of a mountain.


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 – Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
 – The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain [1952], st. I

Rotor is a fine palindrome, thought Frank Leigh Dearie as he ambled down the Lost Highway.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

(Mark Twain)

A word has the power to define, to bind, to create, to destroy. Truely, a poet has power undreamt of by kings.

A word after a word after a word is power.

(Margaret Atwood)

Spaces define which letters to together to make up a word.

The word on my mind right now is >>weekend<<. It's only a few hours away!

I can't wait to get away from this office!!

... words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup, they slither while they pass, they slip away across the universe...

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Words like winter snowflakes.

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 – Homer (c. 700 B.C.)
 – The Iliad, bk. III, l. 222

What I feel for you,
I can't put in words,
language won't hold
my desire.

I bought one of those Word-A-Day calendars to improve my vocabulary for college.

reify – to regard or treat (an abstraction) as if it had concrete or material existence.