Word

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

1001 1001 0110 1001 1010 1001

“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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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

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

mortar my words
with particles
prepositions
adverbs
and conjunctions

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!!

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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

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

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

(Andre Gide)

Words are the best toys you can give your brain.

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.

A word after a word after a word is power.

(Margaret Atwood)

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

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