A word seems like such a small, weightless thing. You say it, it disappears into the air, and that should be the end of it.

The image behind this saying is striking in its contradiction: words are weightless, formless things. They have no body, no legs, no physical presence and yet they can travel…

A word seems like such a small, weightless thing. You say it, it disappears into the air, and that should be the end of it.