It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
I can understand that there are those who can think and imagine the world without words, but I think that once you find the words that name your experience, then suddenly that experience becomes grounded, and you can use it and you can try to understand it.
Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.
Words have a longevity that I do not have.
It's really important how you say things because people won't necessarily remember what words you used, but they'll remember how you made them feel.
The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.
Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.
How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
The way that words fit together is always interesting to me. I love words.
I realized little by little that words are very powerful, and taking those words to encourage people rather than tear them apart was the desire of my heart.
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