Quotes About Communication

Tú, que me lees, ¿estás seguro de entender mi lenguaje?

R?d?cina limbii este iraÈ›ional? È™i are un caracter magic. Danezul care articula numele lui Thor ori saxonul care articula numele lui Thunor nu È™tiau dac? aceste cuvinte însemnau zeul tunetului sau zgomotul care urmeaz? fulgerul. Poezia vrea s? se întoarc? la aceast? magie veche

Nouns are abbreviations. Instead of saying cold, sharp, burning, unbreakable, shining, pointy, we utter dagger; - Verbiage for Poems

Es fama entre los etíopes que los monos deliberadamente no hablan para que no los obliguen a trabajar

En una ocasión le pregunté a Alfonso Reyes por qué publicamos, y Reyes me contestó: «Publicamos para no tener que pasarnos la vida corrigiendo borradores».

Otálora no sabe si atribuir su reserva a hostilidad, a desdén o a mera barbarie.

Alc?tuirea de c?rÅ£i vaste este o nes?buin?? obositoare ÅŸi aduc?toare de s?r?cie; s? întinzi pe cinci sute de pagini o idee a c?rei perfect? expunere oral? încape în cîteva cuvinte

When the end draws near, there no longer remain any remembered images; only words remain.

Mis libros (que no saben que yo existo) Son tan parte de mí como este rostro De sienes grises y de grises ojos Que vanamente busco en los cristales Y que recorro con la mano cóncava. No sin alguna lógica amargura Pienso que las palabras esenciales Que me expresan están en esas hojas Que no saben quién soy, no en las que he escrito. Mejor así. Las voces de los muertos Me dirán para siempre.

Reality may be too complex for oral transmission; legend recreates it in a manner which is only accidentally false and which allows it to go about the world, from mouth to mouth.

His tongue rubbed over hers, offering comfort and reassurance.

One line plus one line results in many meanings.

Public discourse, the moment it becomes basically neutralized with regard to a strict standard of truth, stands by its nature ready to serve as an instrument in the hands of any ruler to pursue all kinds of power schemes.

Can a lie be taken as communication? I tend to deny it. A lie is the opposite of communication. It means specifically to withhold the other's share and portion of reality, to prevent his participation in reality.

Who knows what kind of loneliness is more agonizing: the one which befalls man when he casts his glance at the mute cosmos, at its dark spaces and monotonous drama, or the one that besets man exchanging glances with his fellow man in silence?

C'est une longue histoire, je crois. (...) Je désirais la lui raconter sans détours, mais je ne la voyais pas ainsi. Les histoires sont toujours pleines de détours.

It is one thing to talk to entertain, Xavier, he told me. But it is a more powerful menewawin, a more powerful gift, to talk in order to teach. If you become a good teacher, you are on your way to healing some of the things that have gone wrong.

T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.

What gets left of a man amounts to a part. To his spoken part. To a part of speech

Scratch on, my pen: let's mark the white the way it marks us.

A word's fate depends on the variety of its contexts, on the frequency of its usage.

Un romanzo o una poesia non è un monologo, bensì una conversazione tra uno scrittore e un lettore: una conversazione, ripeto, del tutto privata, che esclude tutti gli altri – un atto, se si vuole, di reciproca misantropia.

un romanzo o una poesia sono il prodotto di una reciproca solitudine – quella di uno scrittore e quella di un lettore.

Il poeta, ripeto, è il mezzo di cui la lingua si serve per esistere. O, come ha detto il mio amato Auden, è colui in cui e per cui la lingua vive.