Peggy Noonan
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Remember the waterfront shack with the sign FRESH FISH SOLD HERE. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course it's for sale, we're not giving it away. Of course it's here, otherwise the sign would be someplace else. The final sign: FISH.
—Peggy Noonan, What I Saw at the Revolution, 1990
Posted on June 13, 2003 at 12:09 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.
—Peggy Noonan, What I Saw at the Revolution
Posted on May 7, 2002 at 4:46 PM
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