Monday, November 21, 2022

Sacred words

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are.
They deserve respect.
If you get the right ones in the right order,
you might nudge the world a little
or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.

                            Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing 

 

 

 

 

 

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