Quotations for Word Lovers

You will have written exceptionally well if, by skillful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

Horace, 65-8 BC

So all my best is dressing old words new, spending again what is already spent.

Shakespeare, 1564-1616

Of every four words I write, I strike out three.

Nicholas Boileau , 1636-1711

Language is fossil poetry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882

A definition is the enclosing of a wilderness of idea with a wall of words.

Samuel Butler, 1835-1902

The limits of my language mean the limit of my world.

Ludwig Wittgentein, 1889-1951

A poem should not mean but be.

Archibad Macleish, 1892-1982

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