Then there is the crackling logophony of words, ear-rinsing words that tingle around the tongue, ricochet off the teeth and palate and shoot from the mouth like a watermelon seed.

Then there is the crackling logophony of words, ear-rinsing words that tingle around the tongue, ricochet off the teeth and palate and shoot from the mouth like a watermelon seed.

- Richard Lederer

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Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

- John Wain

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