panoply: [pa-nuh-plee] noun a wide-ranging and impressive array; a complete suit of armor; full ceremonial attire.
Thee for my recitative,
Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day declining,
Thee in thy panoply, thy measur'd dual throbbing and thy beat convulsive,
Thy black cylindric body, golden brass and silvery steel...
---Walt Whitman
To A Locomotive in Winter
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Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord?
Hamlet: Words, words, words.
Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2
Hamlet: Words, words, words.
Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2
These are words that inspire me, words that make me see things that aren't there, words that dream dreams. And that I imagine would be a fabulous new addition to my vocabulary.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
---Lord Byron
Falling like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
---Lord Byron
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