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“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”
“I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people.”
“French is the language that turns dirt into romance.”
“The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There ...”
“You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is reco...”
“When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.”
“Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.”
“Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.”
“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.”
“Hebrew as a contemporary language, especially for poetry, is no longer the language of the Bible; but neither is it not the language of the Bible.”
“Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.”
“Poetry, as odd as it is, and as hard to figure out as it is, many times, it's almost something that we're used to. It's kind of like a dream language that we had centuries ago, so that when we spea...”
“Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.”
“Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can ...”
“The modern progressive movement believes that dissenting language is objectionable, which then removes the brakes between anger and violence.”
“Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like. ”
“Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.”
“I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.”
“You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.”
“Babel because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth.”
