Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have. 

Caitlín R. Kiernan

Happy birthday, Caitlín R. Kiernan! Before her first novel was published in 1998, the Irish novelist fronted a "goth-folk-blues band" called Death's Little Sister. The band name was inspired by Neil Gaiman and his Sandman series.

Guilty.  I have often been teased because i use words that dance not only in front of my eyes, but expresses sentiments.  High-faluting language, i was teased.  Hardly.  But some words are not really in common use, but they are not high faluting.  Just rarely used.

A wRite quote from Goodreads

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way. 


Seamus Heaney
Irish poet and Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney (born April 13, 1939) enjoys both critical acclaim and widespread popularity. By 2008, two-thirds of poetry books sold in the UK were by Heaney.

For me, there is something about the Irish .....they have pretty words