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New Words Quotes

I recently learn a new word: insatiable. That's me.

I recently learn a new word: insatiable. That's me.

Natalia Makarova
Insatiable, New Words
"Natalia Makarova, Kennedy Center honoree". Interview with Allan Ulrich, www.sfgate.com. December 5, 2012.

And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words.

Jack Kerouac
World, New Words, I Can
Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.34, BookBaby

Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn't create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written.

Anthony Marra
Love Is, Deepest Love, New Words

So all my best is dressing old words new.

William Shakespeare
Dressings, New Words
Sonnet 76

Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language, Relation, New Words
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.191, Penguin

And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.

Michel de Montaigne
Shoulders, New Words
Michel de Montaigne, Charles Cotton (1711). “Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,”, p.121

To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.

Mary Oliver
Different, Accurate, New Words
"'A Thousand Mornings' With Poet Mary Oliver" by Rachel Giese Brown, wfae.org. October 14, 2012.

I thought I’d learn a few new words, but the men were too shocked to even swear this time.

Kiersten White
Men, Swear, New Words

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