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The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

--The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
(trans. Edward Fitzgerald, 1st ed.)

My favourite word in the English language is »language«. However, if you gave me a slightly larger set of words to choose from I might have more difficulty expressing a preference.

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

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There it was, word for word,
The poem that took the place of a mountain.


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 – Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
 – The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain [1952], st. I

And then some more words come along and a paragraph is born.

I bought one of those Word-A-Day calendars to improve my vocabulary for college.

reify – to regard or treat (an abstraction) as if it had concrete or material existence.

Isn't it weird that words work as well as they do? Think about it.

Without another word spoken on either side, the lodger took from his great trunk, a kind of temple, shining as of polished silver, and placed it carefully on the table.

What I feel for you,
I can't put in words,
language won't hold
my desire.

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!!

»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.

In the beginning was the word, and the word was 32 bits.

Words derive their meaning from the surrounding words, just as human beings derive their meaning from interacting with other humans around them.