Letter Word

Famous quotes containing the words letter and/or word:

“Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

“Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)