words make you feel because you use them. if you heard a word, but had never used words to mean anything yourself, i wonder if you would hear anything. words are fat with the weight of past experience. different words are more important to different people. the reason that writing can be so emotional for me is that when i write a poem or make up a story, the words i use are inevitably defined by how i’ve used them in my personal life.
Category: Lane-gwidge
sound over meaning
a lot of the time
it’s just how
the words sound
and not
what they mean
just like
it’s the light
and not
the object
two classes of words
words to classify sort and name specifically:
Tom
Lots Angeles
Copper
Twenty-Four
and words to group evoke feeling and express generally:
love
people
movement
time
i tend to find myself using the second class when poetic and the first when story telling
word sex
an idea starts as a word
which then multiplies
further describing
its original self
with more words
words can’t be trusted
you read into words
too much
which is when
they mean more
than they were
meant to
limited as they are
they can only
be trusted
so far
to convey
what is trying
to be said
parentheses
perfectly placed
parentheses punctuate
a thought within
another thought
impregnated
and unable to live
on its own
once worded
something so
universal
so well
explained
what so many
have experienced
many times
without words
to recall
and name
or otherwise
classify what
ceases to be
experienced
once it’s
been worded
Good writing bad
I have an urge to write something bad just to prove that all language is good.
Banal
Sometimes it’s not the words that matter; it’s how you say them.
adverbs are heavier than nouns
adverbs have more conceptual weight than nouns. for example, the words “much” or “more” – if you make them into nouns, muchness and moreness. those concepts are much richer than any noun, say, “flamingo” or “teapot.” those nouns are very much themselves and just themselves.
My words
I don’t read into your words too much; I had my own English teacher.
Language is a rose with thorns
Language, like a thorned rose, shows me so much, at the same time as it hides much else; brings certain things into focus, and blurs others.