This Craft of Verse

From spotboy -THANKS! - comes a book that looks divine: This Craft of Verse by Jorge Luis Borges. Just to give the flavor:

I think that our idea of words' being a mere algebra of symbols comes from dictionaries. I do not want to be ungrateful to dictionaries - my favorite reading would be Dr. Johnson, Dr. Skeat, and that composite author, the Shorter Oxford. Yet I think the fact of having long catalogues of words and explanations makes us think that the explanations exhaust the words, and that any one of those coins, of those words, can be exchanged for another. But I think we know - and the poet should feel - that every word stands by itself, that every word is unique.

No synonym's
a perfect twin.

They're merely kin.