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Words were different when they lived inside of you.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
(via bookmania)

vulture.com The Unintentional Last Words of 13 Famous Writers Including James Baldwin, Lou Reed, Nora Ephron, and David Foster Wallace.

melvillehouse:

Vulture features all of our Last Interviewees (so far) in this roundup of the series.

litreactor.com Spells and the Physical Power of Words

While poems are seen as acceptable expressions of emotion or thought, magical incantations are generally left to fiction. But there is evidence that words can make a very physical impact on the world.

Stories are like snapshots, pictures snatched out of time, with clean hard edges. But this was life, and life always begins and ends in a bloody muddle, womb to tomb, just one big mess, a can of worms left to rot in the sun.

James Crumley, The Last Good Kiss (via vintagecrimeblacklizard)

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red (via larmoyante)

amandaonwriting:
“ 20 Fabulous Alternatives to the Word Awesome
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amandaonwriting:

20 Fabulous Alternatives to the Word Awesome

All is always now. Words strain,
Crack and sometimes break, under the burden,
Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,
Will not stay still.

T. S. Eliot (via observando)

Is it OK to call a spade a spade?
Josh Chaplinsky checks out whether the PC police have any right to be offended by some common phrases.

Is it OK to call a spade a spade?

Josh Chaplinsky checks out whether the PC police have any right to be offended by some common phrases.

cleispress:
“ Further reading for the Thesaurus Club from Arthur Plotnik’s Better than Great
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Or gossip, shout or even WHISPER.

cleispress:

Further reading for the Thesaurus Club from Arthur Plotnik’s Better than Great

Or gossip, shout or even WHISPER.

The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, of water. We feel poetry as we feel the closeness of a woman, or as we feel a mountain or a bay. If we feel it immediately, why dilute it with other words, which no doubt will be weaker than our feelings?

Jorge Luis Borges, from a lectured entitled “Poetry”, 1977 (via bookoasis)