Famous quotes containing the words written and/or word:
“If you say to me: “Master, it would seem that you weren’t too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense and pleasant mockeries,” I respond that you are hardly more so in finding amusement in reading them.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“a word is elegy to what it signifies.”
—Robert Hass (b. 1941)