“Boris Pasternak said that poetry makes itself from the relationship between the sounds and the meanings of words.”
“A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.”
“The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside.”
“I liked the sound of the word 'snail' every time I said it; the word was as small and simple as the creature itself.”
“Your friend's poetry is terrible," he said.Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. "What?""I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.”
“I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.”