Words in a person's word stock are like paints on a palette. It helps to have just the right shade when you need it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I always thought of words as art supplies.
Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them.
Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.
Words are just words.
Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them.
Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.