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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448267" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Word</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If I make a word<br>it is first sculpted from letters<br>on the page<br>a canvass across which<br>letters skate<br>from margin to margin transforming<br>into meanings and sentences<br>which give us art, science, poetry<br>and civilization.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is created from an arbitrary entity, <br>the scratchings we call letters<br>which in turn form yet another<br>mysterious entity we call the alphabet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What manner of miracle is this? <br>All of civilization is born from <br>these scribbly scratchings? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So if each letter is an imaginary entity, <br>an arbitrary symbol we made up<br>which has no meaning by itself<br>and lives inside another arbitrary entity<br>we call the alphabet<br>we may properly ask<br>what is going on here? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Meaning here is deriving from an arbitrary nothingness<br>arbitrarily created from arbitrary letters<br>by virtue of common agreement around<br>what words will mean? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ponder this: <br>we too, as individuals are letter unique<br>and, in our variety, form a kind of human alphabet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What we all mean and can mean to each other<br>therefore depends upon the words we form<br>in our families and communities; our human alphabets.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, one word letters such as 'I' are too self-regarding<br>and are narcissistic anomalies<br>not true words at all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Better words have more syllables than that<br>and have enabled us to form social sentences<br>more complex <br>which we can use for good or ill<br>peace or war, love or hate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So watch your words and sentences<br>don't swing them recklessly in a crowded room<br>you'll put somebody's mind out<br>or create genius.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Big responsibility this<br>especially for us poets.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So in the end<br>in mass society<br>you and I are a single letter<br>but combined create all there is.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You can take that<br>as the first<br>and last<br>Word<br>And by the way<br>arbitrary letters<br>are electrons at the sub-atomic level<br>and combine to make molecules<br>and the greatest meaning of all<br>All of the Universe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</a><div class=q>
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it is first sculpted from letters
on the page
a canvass across which
letters skate
from margin to margin transforming
into meanings and sentences
which give us art, science, poetry
and civilization.

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