Words can seem ordinary when we use them every day, but Margaret Atwood's famous line, “A word after a word after a word is power,” offers a powerful reminder of just how much language can influence people, ideas and even society. The quote comes from Atwood's poem “Spelling”, which is associated with her 1981 poetry collection True Stories.
The line has also been used officially by Canada Post on a Margaret Atwood commemorative stamp, which described it as a line from “Spelling”, one of her best-known poems about writing.
