Quotes About Language

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What I remember I cannot tell though it is there in all that I say

Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture.

The thing that makes poetry different from all other arts [is that] you're using language, which is what you use for everything else--telling lies and selling socks, advertising and conducting law. Whereas we don't write little concerti to each other, or paint pictures.

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Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

So this is what I am Pondering his eyes that could not Conceive that I was a creature to run from I who have always believed too much in words

Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.

I had a chance to go to Italy when I was younger and that would have been tough because of the language. America is easier but I really loved it.

I never hear terrorists say 'Merry Christmas,' only 'Allahu Akbar'.

The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

The essence of cross-cultural communication has more to do with releasing responses than with sending messages. It is more important to release the right response than to send the right message.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

You cannot not communicate. Every behavior is a kind of communication. Because behavior does not have a counterpart (there is no anti-behavior), it is not possible not to communicate.

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

Don't confuse legibility with communication.

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.

Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate.