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“Yet from time to time we are betrayed by language, if not in the words themselves, in the rhythm with which we deliver our words. Over time, I would learn to listen for those wonderful moments when...”
“Some people use language as a mask. And some want to create designed language that appears to reveal them but does not.”
“Language is a serious weapon in shining and sharing Truth. It is also a serious weapon used in its distortion.”
“No question; language can free us of feeling, or almost. Maybe that's one of its functions - so we can understand the world without becoming entirely overwhelmed by it.”
“Signs form a language, but not the one you think you know.”
“Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity”
“It is not what you meant to say, but it is what your saying meant.”
“Language is not only a means of speech and thought, it is a bridge with the significant function of bringing the wealth of the past to our day and conveying todays heritage and our new compositions...”
“The Thames was beautiful, dark, and swift beneath the billion yellow and white lights of the city”
“Nations that can manage to develop their language and make it accommondating while at the same time staying faithful to the roots of it are the most communicative societies that are also most dynam...”
“What if, right now, as were immolating language, were doing away with ourselves? Maybe weve regressed. The skills we once used for survival scattered attention, diffuse concentration have been ad...”
“I dont think I have as many friends as I thought I did, not close ones, not many who I connect with on that deep level of language that doesnt just allow us to be ourselves with each other but allo...”
“Poetry helps heal wounds.Makes them tangible.At the poetry reading I reada poem.A prophecy I wrote down. Almost couldn't go through with it.But it came outhurried and hotand by the endmy tongue was...”
“Words tend to last a big longer than things, but eventually they fade too, along with the pictures they once evoked. Entire categories of objects disappear - flowerpots, for example, or cigarette f...”
“As a result of the work done by all these stratifying force in language, there are no "neutral" words and forms - words and forms that can belong to "no one"; language has been completely taken ove...”
“And if it is true that the image still has the function of speaking, of transmitting something consubstantial with language, we must recognize that it already no longer says the same thing; and tha...”
“Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress”
“Who could trust language?”
“A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.”
“Once or twice I saw evidence that rats had been nesting among the books, rearranging them to make snug two and three-level homes for themselves and smearing dung on the covers to form the rude char...”
