Word

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

»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«

We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.

»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«


 – Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
 – Sand and Foam [1926]

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

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

1001 1001 0110 1001 1010 1001

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans – born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

(John F. Kennedy)

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.

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

(Andre Gide)

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

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!!

Which is more useful to you: a dictionary that tells you how to use a word or a dictionary that tells you how a word is used?

»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«

Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.

»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«


 – Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
 – An Essay on Criticism [1711], pt. II, l. 109

A word after a word after a word is power.

(Margaret Atwood)

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

(Mark Twain)

The word is powerless yet powerful. The word can be a mere 8 bits, or the flame that burns a city to the ground. Words sting, caress, re-assure, and destruct.

We become wordsmiths innately, learning language before we learn to walk or talk. And still, we continue our development, our love affair with words, until the day we die.