872 quotes found
“If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.”
“But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I kn...”
“Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated.”
“If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. When affairs can...”
“Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the author's intention. In fact, nothing in ...”
“The fact that in the twentieth century a greater proportion of the people in the world could communicate with one another, using English or just a few other languages, appears not to have stopped a...”
“On the basis of this information, it would be possible to argue that if everybody spoke English (or Chinese or Esperanto for that matter) everybody would be at war even more often.”
“Love is a universal language.”
“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”
“We sit and talk,quietly, with long lapses of silenceand I am aware of the streamthat has no language, coursingbeneath the quiet heaven ofyour eyeswhich has no speech”
“What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!”
“Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.”
“Language has not the power to speak what love inditesThe soul lies buried in the Ink that writes”
“Language is fossil Poetry.”
“If words allow themselves to be handled, it is with the help of infinite carefulness. One has to welcome them, listen to the, before asking any service of them. Words are living things closely invo...”
“I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.”
“The subtleties of the mind cannot be transmitted in words, but can be seen in words.”
“By giving words the latitude she does, (Marianne) Van Hirtum emphasizes their contagious qualities: they become almost like viruses, with which it is necessary to put oneself in harmony by sympathe...”
“Loves language starts, stops, starts; the right words flowing or clotting in the heart.”
“Language signifies when instead of copying thought it lets itself be taken apart and put together again by thought. Language bears the sense of thought as a footprint signifies the movement and eff...”
