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“Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we shall live. Who speaks reason to his fellowmen bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanit...”
“I once ran across a list of nearly 400 winds from around the world and wondered why Wyoming, so dominated by wind, has so few names for its variations. . . . There's the wind, the damned wind, and ...”
“She said the words, and then she had a strange moment of seeing them, hanging there over her head. "You're going to vacuum up that squi”
“Language is insight itself.”
“She didn't know that all her life would be spent gambling with the stark rigidity of words, words that were coin: save, spend and all the time George with his own counter had found her a way out.”
“I have tasted words, I have seen them. Never had her hands reached out in darkness and felt the texture of pure marble, never had her forehead bent forward and, as against a stone altar, felt safet...”
“The species greatest harvest words.”
“His prose, like the thinking it reveals, is full of cloudy suggestions of something beyond the range of mere cognition. He has been given power, if not over the entities and dyads, certainly over t...”
“Alex felt the words wash over him. He had the strange fantasy the things were seeking places within him to lay their young.”
“The Actor, noticing a closed bookshop, dismounted from the horse which he tied to a street lamp. He woke up the bookseller and bought a Spanish grammar and dictionary. He set out again across town ...”
“One thing I'm sure Colborne will never understand is that I need language to live, like foodlexemes and morphemes and morsels of meaning nourish me with the knowledge that, yes, there is a word for...”
“When there's a negative word or expression-immaculate, for example-but the positive is almost never used, and you choose to use it, you become rather amusing. Or pretentious. Or pretentiously amusi...”
“When I asked if she read poetry anymore, she said no. she had lost her taste for it. That was how she said it, lost her taste. I asked how that could happen, and she said she agreed with Plato, or ...”
“The only substance that goes in and never leaves, are words”
“TO A GIRAFFE If it is unpermissible, in fact fatal to be personal and undesirable to be literaldetrimental as well if the eye is not innocent-does it mean that one can live only on top leaves that ...”
“ROSEMARY Beauty and Beautys son and rosemary Venus and Love, her son, to speak plainly born of the sea supposedly, at Christmas each, in company, braids a garland of festivity. Not always rosemary ...”
“In the days of Prismatic Colornot in the days of Adam and Eve, but when Adam was alone; when there was no smoke and color was fine, not with the refinement of early civilization art, but because of...”
“Words were stories in themselves.”
“Words are not cubicles for truth telling. Words do not allow us to touch the face of God or define the contours of the soul. Words are imprecise and cannot capture all aspects of reality or replica...”
“Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote.”
