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- Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity… — Elizabeth Bowen
- Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the… — Ben Marcus
- Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters… — Mal Peet
- Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And… — David Crystal
- Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part… — Black Elk
- When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean… — Lewis Carroll
- A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal,… — Walt Whitman
- The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to… — Brion Gysin
- A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one… — Jay-Z
- I discover poetry when I was in elementary school and I was so fascinated by it. Because I realised if you get… — Taylor Swift