Associations to the word «Palinode»

Wiktionary

PALINODE, noun. A poem in which the author retracts something said in an earlier poem.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky