“Words strain,
Crack and sometimes break, under the burden,
Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,
Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place,
Will not stay still.”
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T.S. Eliot 270
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 341.