Words are like bullets; if they escape, you can't catch them again. -- African Proverb Words are as beautiful as wild horses, and sometimes as difficult to corral. -- Ted Berkman

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart. - Phyllis McGinley

I love that quote! But I adore the exchange that is part of it. Through the Looking Glass: "I don't know what you mean by 'glory'" Alice said. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't-- till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!'" "But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument,'" Alice objected. "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you CAN make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master-- that's all."

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. Truman Capote

"..to provide a name or term to designate a thing is to detract from its entity, its authentic nature....the very instant you speak up in order to give something a meaning, a definition, you limit it, you restrict it....thus, with words as one mentions right, the very mention adheres error within itself" Tri Thong Dang