the migrations of millions of verbs, wings and claws, seeds and hands; the nouns, bony and full of roots, planted on the waves of language; (11-12)
Like the Sea Monkey, words will come to life if you just add water!
Quote #5
Syllables seeds. (14)
Syllables in and of themselves are (usually) not communicative. But they are the basic building blocks of language, which allow poets to be creative with it.