Word

Words are like prodigies. They may want to stay inside where it is safe and warm but they'll never live if they never play outside...and find themselves lost in the cold.

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

The best way to discover new words is by reading a book.

'Right again, quite right,' said Mr Swiveller, 'caution is the word, and caution is the act.'

Words derive their meaning from the surrounding words, just as human beings derive their meaning from interacting with other humans around them.

A word after a word after a word is power.

(Margaret Atwood)

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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.

And then some more words come along and a paragraph is born.

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

»Therefore« is a word the poet must not know.

(Andre Gide)

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.

The web of words wraps round the whole wide world, concealing the secret numbers underneath.

1001 1001 0110 1001 1010 1001

The old folks say that the spoken word is the garment of the soul. What man of true wit would clothe his beloved in filth and tatters?