Word

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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

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

My favourite word in the English language is »language«. However, if you gave me a slightly larger set of words to choose from I might have more difficulty expressing a preference.

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

There is a purity in words that cannot be sullied by their use.

I think that Word is one of these strange softwares that can do anything except what you think it can do. It's not possible to write with this thing, but you can spend your day goofing with toolbars or including all types of spreadsheets or multimedia or even use it as the worst HTML-Editor ever.

I prefer ASCII, really.

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

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?

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

A man of words and not of deeds
Is like a garden full of weeds.

mortar my words
with particles
prepositions
adverbs
and conjunctions

Isn't it weird that words work as well as they do? Think about it.

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

(Andre Gide)