The Power of the Word

It's like that moment when you finish a great book for the first time and the words ring out and linger on your lips and in your mind, and you wish that it would never end. Or the moment when you read that line of poetry that just resounds within your soul and echos about the chambers of your consciousness, and the words grow to fill you. It is the moment when you find yourself within the well-worn pages of a tattered tome and feel, if only for a moment, that someone understands you perfectly. The power of literature and of the word is the power to capture the human soul in a phrase and then to let it free. And then that phrase, that word, that thought, becomes once more a part of the human soul, only now it's found expression and can be sent on to heal another heart.