Semantic Exploration Quotes

I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, “It’s true. There aren’t any new words. Our job is to give new meanings and special overtones to absolutely ordinary words.” I find the thought reassuring. It means that vast, unknown stretches still lie before us, fertile territories just waiting for us to cultivate them.

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

When I start asking my friends, "What do you think this means?" And it leads to way more interesting conversations than what it actually ends up meaning in the dictionary. Like "apocryphal," for instance.

How fascinating to a child are words: the shapes, sounds, textures and mysterious meanings of words; the way words link together into elastic patterns called "sentences." And these sentences into paragraphs, and beyond.

I do think it's important that we experiment with new vocabularies. That new words help us conceptualize our social existence in a different way.

There is a pretty interesting document called 'action writing.' Which is not all about spontaneity and first thought, best thought,' but a certain kind of attention to the smallest increments of the phonemes of language, The kind of power of connection, what he is able to do with language.

What I am doing is creating a language. A different American language.

We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.

I'm more of a wordsmith, so I like taking different words and trying to see what I can do with them - as many things as possible.