“All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin
About me:
One of the most significant things I’ve learned throughout my life as a lover of language and words themselves is that everything is made up. Language was made up and continues to evolve. Words and their meanings are constantly changing. When I write definitions, poems, copy, documentation, musings, or anything else, remembering that everything is made up grounds me and inspires my creativity.
Poetic musing:
Words are toys,
playthings,
made-up fragments
smashed
together. WhatI’msayingis:
Words are basically
letter sandwiches
with sounds attached.
About the site name:
“I want words” is from my favorite poem, which I found in a collection of translated poems back in 2011. To this day, it still makes me cry when I read it aloud.
Say More, Speak Like Rain
Excerpt:
“I want
words
like shiny stones in my pocket,
words like thrown arrows
I want words
like the years in a worn down
table. Maybe I am the last
believer now:
I believe in blind man’s
never faltering fumbling over a writing
of flaming points.”
Say More, Speak Like Rain
By Arne Ruste, Translated from the Norwegian by Olav Grinde