That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific — chair, eye, stone — but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were this and not that, they couldn’t include all the meanings. In defining, they always left something out.
-Janet Fitch
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Enjoy this quote of the week on words – the poet’s tools.
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So true.
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Thanks so much for this great quote! Words are so multi faceted. And they can be ambiguous too!
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Right. 🙂
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