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When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little. Stephen Spender

You Master Rich Chaos Poem Read Understand Formal Little Then Meanings

Slang has different functions: many of the words we use are playful and a lot are tribal - we speak the same way as the groups we are part of. A great deal are also euphemistic, so it's no surprise that a third of us are perplexed by their meanings and origins. Susie Dent

Great Words Speak Great Deal Tribal Way Part Also Deal Surprise Perplexed Lot Same Different Us Meanings Use Many Groups Functions Origins Slang Playful Third

The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book - which was a list of flowers and their meanings - de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine. Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Book Language Flower Medicine Ancient Charlotte Paris Poetry Throughout Mythology Written Printed References Began List Which Victorian Create Meanings Even Publication Symbolism Flowers Gathered

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels. Willard Van Orman Quine

Change Words Myth Labels Semantics Which Meanings Languages Switch Museum

The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that. William Greider

Events Political Drama Only Point Ritual Longer Understand Covering Reporters Human Essentially Convention Meanings Who Searching Keep Now

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! William Makepeace Thackeray

Thoughts History Become Down Secret Books Would Insipid Could Excite Volumes Written Alongside Tales Reader How Private His Dull Author Story Interesting Noted Meanings Many

A lot of my paintings have quite negative meanings, but painted in a bright and cheerful way. Ben Eine

Negative Way Cheerful Lot Quite Meanings Painted Paintings Bright

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