Mode Word

Famous quotes containing the words mode and/or word:

“Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.”
—Paul Deman (1919–1983)

“my heart leaps
in wonder.
Cold, fresh, deep, I feel the word ‘water’
spelled in my left palm.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)