Quotes About Language

Since language represents the physical conditions that have been subjected to the maximum transformation in the interests of social life—physical things which have lost their original quality in becoming social tools—it is appropriate that language should play a large part compared with other appliances.

There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.

Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to condense into definite form; the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account.

The AlphabetOf flowers.

All measure, and all language, I should pass, Should I tell what a miracle she was.

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

Wit will shineThrough the harsh cadence of a rugged line.

And torture one poor word ten thousand ways.

The way of words, of knowing and loving words, is a way to the essence of things, and to the essence of knowing.

Damn words; they're just the pots and pans of life, the pails and scrubbing-brushes. I wish I didn't have to think in words.

I have an old soul. I don't know any real-life lingo, so I have to take it from movies.

I swear in real life-probably too much-though I don't swear in front of my gran. We adapt to every situation.

Not understanding anything is terrible, because I communicate very much in my real life.

Reality is the page. Life is the word.

Infinity is just zero spelled backwards.

The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.

I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again.

My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

The word gap leads to an achievement gap and has life-long consequences

A giving which gives only its gift, but in the giving holds itself back and withdraws, such a giving we call sending.

Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit.

Words matter, words have import.