the magic of language

[kassia]

Who make your favorite words? Are they poets, essayists, songwriters, storytellers?
Please give an example line or phrase or expression or excerpt for each, and say why you like it (importance of content? clarity of expression? beauty of articulation? some other combination of reasons?)

Comments

[zkzkz.livejournal.com]

This dictionary, a sort of salvage operation of words drifting from dictionary language, may serve to moor the terminology of estuary English. It is, however, mostly a cruise through an archipelago of half-sunken dictionaries, reference works touched with the drop-line of summer inquiry by a scholar intrigued with the death of topographical curiosity among the young, the young, so absent from the marshes.

[elbren]

nice. made by you?

[zkzkz.livejournal.com]

Nope. A quote from the best candidate I can think of for your question from amongst my (relatively) recent readings.