Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston
...The sun was gone, but he had left his footprints in the sky. It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road. It was the time to hear things and talk. These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins. But now, the sun and bossman(whitey) were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human. They became lords of sounds and lesser things. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgement.
...Words walking without masters; walking altogether like harmony in a song.
The City in the Sea By Edgar Allan Poe
Lo! Death has reared himself a throne
In a strange city lying alone
Far down within the dim West,
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best
Have gone to their eternal rest.
There shrines and palaces and towers
(Time-eaten towers that tremble not!)
Resemble nothing that is ours.
Around, by lifting winds forgot,
Resignedly beneath the sky
The melancholy waters lie.
No rays from the holy heaven come down.....
John Locke
The achievement of human knowledge is often hampered by the use of words without fixed signification. Say what you mean, and mean what you say.
"Blame the guy who doesn't speak English."
---Homer J. Simpson---