"And the good writer chooses his words for their ‘meaning,’ but that meaning is not a set, cut-off..."

“And the good writer chooses his words for their ‘meaning,’ but that meaning is not a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.”

- Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading (via bookmania)