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We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore (Language Quotes)
Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human (Language Quotes)
English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman’s apparel is clearly asking to be mangled (Language Quotes)
I learned a long time ago that you don’t have to go around using bad language and trying to hurt people to show how macho you are. That stuff won’t get you anywhere, it just shows lack of vocabulary and character (Language Quotes)
Doesn’t matter what language you speak or what clothes you wear. Some things don’t change. Families. Friends. Lovers. They’re the same in every city in every country in every continent of the world (Language Quotes)
True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as if strengthened by its own medium, to shine even more fully on the original (Language Quotes)
Language is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you (Language Quotes)
Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language (Language Quotes)
Always thinks of the other; ego thinks only of oneself. Love is always considerate; ego is absolutely inconsiderate. Ego has only one language and that is of self. Ego always uses the other; love is ready to be used, love is ready to serve (Language Quotes)
Have you ever noticed how some rooms exude a certain energy, warmth, and a harmony of spirit? If you have, then you have experienced the language of the home. A language softly spoken, and univerally understood (Language Quotes)
What I’m constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget that the medium of communication is language (Language Quotes)
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity (Language Quotes)
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy (Language Quotes)
It’s a writer’s job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone (Language Quotes)
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language (Language Quotes)
The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives (Language Quotes)
When a man is born... there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets (Language Quotes)
Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it (Language Quotes)
A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament (Language Quotes)
It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink (Language Quotes)
Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it’s trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once (Language Quotes)
It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning (Language Quotes)
I have discovered that in every language and every country I have visited, there are no new stories. They’re all recycled. The same stressful thoughts arise in each mind one way or another, sooner or later (Language Quotes)
The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art (Language Quotes)
Heart is a sea, language is the shore. Whatever is in a sea hits the shore (Language Quotes)
The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers (Language Quotes)
Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others (Language Quotes)
I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you (Language Quotes)
The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard (Language Quotes)
... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives (Language Quotes)