Quote#Speech
You may choose your word like a connoisseur
Quote byElla Wheeler Wilcox · 1850–1919
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: New Thought Pastels (1913), The Word.
English (original)
You may choose your word like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.You may work on your word a thousand weeks, But it will not glow like one That all unsought, leaps forth white hot, When the fountains of feeling run.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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