Quotes About Language

For one must label a thought with language for one can understand the meaning of the thinking mind.

The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.

The limits of your language are the limits of your world.

Do you know, by the way, that German is the only language in the world that has a word for 'pleasure derived from the misfortune of others'? Schadenfreude.

To speak only one language is to do yourself a great injustice.

The language of the universe comes not from the voice but from the primordial silence. You can understand it by enhancing your feelings.

I never speak in silence.

PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary.

Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word "nuclear.

It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of the grooves

When writing a book what is more important? Grammar and spelling or telling a great story? I know which I would choose.

Writing's in the nouns.

But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing.

Between words and objects one can create new relations and specify characteristics of language and objects generally ignored in everyday life.

Color speaks all languages.

The art of writing is the manipulation of words to ease the mind and free the imagination

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

If you don't have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language… you can't chant well. You cannot… receive the images of poetry paints for you. It's like having peas and no pod.