Writing
November 11th, 2009
Words, in and of themselves, may not be all that interesting or useful. Put them together in certain ways and they have the ability to conjure worlds. And by conjure I literally mean to “cause to appear as if by magic.”1 Because the result of this process can be so powerful, it behooves the writer to judiciously execute his incantations.
1 Oxford English Dictionary
example:
Soul melts into air,
anima into aura,
Serenitas.
-Ezra Pound, from Drafts & Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII (New Directions, 1968)
