Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.
There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. In every culture, in every language there is expressive play, expressive word play, there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.
I think the thing I really got from Ginsberg was that you can tell a story through kind of painting pictures with words. And when I found out that you could have a profession doing that, it was thrilling to me. It just became my passion immediately, playing with words and poetry.
If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?
Those moments of play that we do get in meta-life, like playing music, or golf, or word-play, or flirting - those are some of the best parts about being alive.
In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.
When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like flowers in a vase.
They are "sexcellent". That is a pun for you, you will find lots of puns on the internet! Also: blonde jokes.
What I want is for people to really grab hold of language and not be nervous about it. 'The Word Spy' is all about diving in and playing with words.
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 find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
Have fun and play as many word games as possible.
My mind jumbles things, reassembles them, and plays with words without even being asked.
'Lip Lock' is a play on words. It sounds flirty and fun. Also, my lips are one of my favorite features. Also, it's like, literally locking the game down with my words because I'm a lyricist.
I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.
