“A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
“He [Platon Karataev] did not understand, and could not grasp the significance of words taken apart from the sentence. Every word and every action of his was the expression of a force uncomprehended by him, which was his life.Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
“I sent thee late a rosy wreath, Not so much honoring thee As giving it a hope that there It could not wither’d be. But thou thereon didst only breathe, And sent’st it back to me; Since when it grows and smells, I swear, Not of itself, but thee. Ben Jonson