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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