Sappho - sapphire:
Distrust predictive text,
Our language is not the factor or product of statistical distribution.
Yeats - years:
Words are free children,
Adolescent as they are.
Szymborska - symbol:
Romantic languages endow each noun with a grammatical gender.
They are our fellows in the lifeboat,
which is why they shout, "women and children first",
and think, "every man for himself".
Rilke - roller:
O poets, to understand a word as an independent symbol is to understand ourselves.
Plath - playhouse:
Ideas are things, exchange them freely and support growth.
Sissay - sissy:
A word is a thing and the name of a thing and the gluttonous confusion in between,
which is - you may find - a little bit alive.
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Richard Abbott
Lockdown and redundancy have been my Muses. And these are the wild-haired writings that have fled the compound into the night.
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