“How does a change in vocabulary save your life? Replacing one word with another word for the same thought—can this actually transform your feelings about things?”
Howe, Fanny. The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2003. p. 47.
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University of California Press
“I miss circumstance
already—
the way a single word
could mean
necessary, relative,
provisional
and a bird flicks past
leaving
the sense that one
has waved one’s hand.”
Armantrout, Rae. “Greeting.” Collected Prose. San Diego: Singing Horse Press, 2007. p. 115.
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Singing Horse Press
“One solitude lies alone
Can be represented
where the capture breaking
along the shock wave
interpreted as space-time
on a few parameters
Only in the absolute sky
as it is in Itself”
Howe, Susan. “The Narrative of Finding.” The Nonconformist’s Memorial. New York: New Directions, 1993. p. 13.
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New Directions Books
“Kumeyaay lived in a relationship of mutualism with the natural world. In fact, there was no word for Nature as Kumeyaay life was so intertwined that the concept of humans as separate from nature was a foreign concept.”
"Connolly Miskwish, Michael. Where Have All The Fires Gone?; An Indigenous Perspective On the Fire Relationship. Presentation. Humanities Studio at Pomona College, Pomona, California. October 15, 2020."
“Therefore, the notion of subject as priviledged argument shows up in the very basic building blocks of a sign language. It is an essential part of how we encode an event in a word, even before we string words together into sentences."
Meir, Irit, Carol A. Padden, Mark Aronoff, and Wendy Sandler. "Body as Subject." Journal of Linguistics 43, no. 3 (2007):p. 561. Accessed May 13, 2021
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JSTOR
“The kernel of the difference seems to me statable thus: The briefest possible biological meaning of the word spreads it out, as one might say, evenly over the whole living world, while the briefest possible logical meaning does not do this.”
Ritter, William Emerson. The Higher Usefulness of Science, and Other Essays. Boston, MA: Gorham Press, 1918. p. 115.
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Google Books
“It can mean seeing the houses, roads, and people of your old place as for the first time. It can mean every word heard is heard to its deepest echo. It can mean mysterious tears of gratitude. Our ‘soul’ is our dream of the other.”
Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. p. 180.
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BeWild ReWild
“After all, even the utterance of a single word like ‘rose’ evokes a whole host of associations and emotions: the first rose you ever got, the fragrance, rose gardens you were promised, rosy lips and cheeks, thorns, rose-colored glasses, and so on.”
Ramachandran, V. S. The Tell-tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human. New York: W.W. Norton, 2011. p. 159.
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W.W. Norton
“Sound a word or a sound.
Listen—surprise.
Sound a word as a sound.
Sound a sound as a word.
Sound a sound until it is a word.
Sound a word until it is a sound.
Sound a sentence of sounds.
Sound a phrase of words.”
Oliveros, Pauline. “Cross Overs.” Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice. New York: iUniverse, 2005. p. 54.
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iUniverse
“Sound a word or a sound.
Listen—surprise.
Sound a word as a sound.
Sound a sound as a word.
Sound a sound until it is a word.
Sound a word until it is a sound.
Sound a sentence of sounds.
Sound a phrase of words.”
Oliveros, Pauline. “Cross Overs.” Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice. New York: iUniverse, 2005. p. 54.
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iUniverse
“But few could equal Mary Church Terrell as an advocate of Black Liberation through the written and spoken word. She sought freedom for her people through logic and persuasion.”
Davis, Angela Y. Women, Race and Class. London: Penguin Books, 2019. p. 136.
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Internet Archive
“For example, the memory trace for the symbol ‘chair’ would include an image of a chair, the printed word for chair, the sound of the word, and other defining information.”
Atkinson, R. C. (2018). The Mind’s Theorist. Revista Colombiana de Psicología, 27, 133- 139.
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UC San Diego