O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.
The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.
Writing for 'Rooster' was a strange experience. It's funny, once you tap into a voice, words just start to flow. You know when you've hit a spirit or captured something.
Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns.
A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.