three oddest words.
When I pronounce the word
F u t u r e
the first syllable already belongs to the past
When I pronounce the word
S i l e n c e
I destroy it
When I pronounce the word
N o t h i n g
I make something
no nonbeing can hold.
- Wisława Szymborska, Poems New and Collected
(Credits to reginacordium)