Using your words with care

The old expression that words will never harm often can, of course, actually be turned on its head because words can, will and do cause harm.  Thus, using words to lift up rather than tear down should be in every writer's soul.  As the novelist Ursula K. Le Guin once wrote:

“A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. 

"Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.”