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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.

— Edgar Allan Poe

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Some words are not so absolute as they sound. Take the word “nothing“: A woman who has nothing to wear also never has room in her closet.

— John P. Grier

[And then, of course, there are males like me, with loads to choose from, but wear the same thing every day. — kmab]

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Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

― Sigmund Freud

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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

― Thomas Jefferson

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The mind is its own place, and the places inhabited by the insane and the exceptionally gifted are so different from the places where ordinary men and women live, that there is little or no common ground of memory to serve as a basis for understanding or fellow feeling. Words are uttered, but fail to enlighten. The things and events to which the symbols refer belong to mutually exclusive realms of experience.

— Aldous Huxley

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Words do not express thoughts very well; everything immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another.

— Hermann Hesse
From his novel: “The Journey To The East“

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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

— Henry Adams

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I understand why we do that now. It’s a help, not a threat. It’s something to remind you how important words are. Ideas are important. Principles are important. Words are important. Your word is the most important of all. Your word is who you are.

— Tom Clancy

[Found on a blog I follow: http://dshenai.wordpress.com/

The specific post is: http://dshenai.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/tribute-to-tom-clancy-with-his-insightful-quotes/

Thanks Deo! — kmab]

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All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

— Letter (9 April 1945);
Published in: “Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961“
Edited by: Carlos Baker

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There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it’s going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.

— Frank Zappa
From his book: “The Real Frank Zappa Book“

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