Jack Kerouac
Novelist, Poet
"And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words."
New Words quotes
New Words
8 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"So all my best is dressing old words new."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word."
Mary Oliver
Poet
"To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it."
Michel de Montaigne
Philosopher, Writer
"And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one."
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