How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

Where the bodily presence is weak and the speech contemptible, surely there cannot be error in making written language the medium of better utterance than faltering lips can achieve?

Man acts as though he were the sharper and the master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

Music is exciting and easy to enjoy, the rhythm and voice.It does not need interpretation. That is why it is called the Universal Language.

Our language now has become quick-moving (in syllables), and may be very supple and nimble, but is rather thin in sound and in sense too often diffuse and vague. the language of our forefathers, especially...

Deleuze and Guattari have been totally misunderstood because the following has been wrenched from context: “Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is...

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word.

Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child’s Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write in plain, vigorous language one...

I should learn the language of a politician – give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded.

There is one thing I like about the Poles—their language. Polish, when it is spoken by intelligent people, puts me in ecstasy. The sound of the language evokes strange images in which there is always...

English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.

I picked up a new language a few months ago. It was just laying on the ground, dirty, so I scooped it up and popped it in my mouth.

It’s only words… unless they’re true.

Language dazzles and deceives because it is masked by faces, because we see it emerging from the lips, because lips please and eyes beguile. But words on paper, black on white, reveal the naked soul.

A civil tongue speaks the language of masters. An uncivil tongue reveals character flaws of its master.

English is not merely a language anymore; it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world.

Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?

I caught one last glimpse of her face, howling something at me.There were too many vowels in what she said, and they were in an unkind order. (“Substitutions”)

The ability to think for one’s self depends upon one’s mastery of the language.

Jack had wondered how geometers could be so inventive as to produce so many types and families of curves. Later he had come to perceive that of curves there was no end, and the true...

You have to watch your language. People will think you have no fucking class

There are objects made up of two sense elements, one visual, the other auditory—the colour of a sunrise and the distant call of a bird. Other objects are made up of many elements—the sun, the...

A dog is der Hund the dog; a women is die Frau the wom[an]; a horse is das Pferd, the horse; now you put that dog in the Genitive case, & is he the same...

A stubborn refusal of the conditions of 20th Century ‘reality’, surrealism has denied intransigently and consistently that modern man can live without a sense of wonder at the world that was once embodied in myth....

Have you heard,” he said “that many of our people believe if you know five colloquial expressions in their tribal language, they must always provide you with nourishment and shelter? But-” He paused as though...

A good story or a book is all about it’s power to hold it’s readers still till the very last word of it’s climax – complexity in language, dialogues, descriptions, everything else is secondary!

Being a poet one confronts the limitation of language, how can the spirit be revealed under any restrictions.

Faeces by any other name would smell as gross

Over the years, my church gave me passage into a menagerie of exotic words unknown in the South: “introit,” “offertory,” “liturgy,” “movable feast,” “the minor elevation,” “the lavabo,” “the apparition of Lourdes,” and hundreds more....

A body is a body, but only voices are capable of love

Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we’ll never meet.It’s the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children...

Buenos dias,” she said in response to Hernandez’s soft greeting. They had a pact to speak only Spanish to each other, with the result that their conversation never got beyond hello and good-bye.

Ileż zdań można utworzyć z dwudziestu czterech liter alfabetu? Ileż znaczeń można wyprowadzić z setek chwastów, grudek i innych drobiazgów?

The misuse of language induces evil in the soul

Language is fossil Poetry.

I control the world so long as I can name it. Which is why children must chase language before they do anything else, tame the wilderness by describing it, challenge God by learning His hundred...

The big problem in translating is that we had to translate the language. People may not know that we record the podcast in Japanese, translate it to English and then actors play us on the...

My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn’t just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you’ve got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren’t...

Words are such fun!

Fie, fie upon her! There’s language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out at every joint and motive of her body.

For most of my life, I have received messages – images and worded communications, sometimes even in an ancient language – that came to me from above.

A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.

Language is something you inherit, it’s never just you doing the talking, which helps when you’re pretending.

With the sound of gusting wind in the branches of the language trees of Babel, the words gave way like leaves, and every reader glimpsed another reality hidden in the foilage.

Teachers were powerful enough to kill the indigenous languages: they are not powerful enough to bring them back to life.

To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of subject must be introducted; verbs must be shifted to unsuspected...

Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world’s great diplomats, surely.

Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure beside which we are all deviants, the marginal, the dependent...

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.