Quotes About Language

De meeste gebeurtenissen zijn niet te verwoorden, ze voltrekken zich in een ruimte die nog nooit door een woord is betreden.

Bir dünya girer benim görüÅŸ alan?ma, belki ay gibi insan bar?nmayan bir yer; onlar tek duyguyu haline b?rakmaz ama, orta mal?d?r kulland?klar? bütün sözler.

Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.

For now I had begun to believe, despite all the talk of science around me, that there was a magic in spoken words.

For their most innocent words were acts of violence to which we of the campus were hypersensitive though we endured them not.

Tell them to teach them that when they call you nigger to make a rhyme with trigger it makes the gun backfire

Ellison gave our age a new metaphor for social alienation. His definition of invisibility is so common now, so much a part of the culture and language—like a coin handled by millions—that it is automatically invoked when we talk about the situation of black Americans and any social group we willingly refuse to see.

Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

Words are finite organs of the infinite mind.

Every word was once a poem.

Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language--not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.

Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.

Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.

the mystic must be steadily told,—All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,—universal signs, instead of these village symbols,—and we shall both be gainers. The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language.

The poets made all the words and therefore language is the archives of history, and, if we must say it, a sort of tomb of the muses. For though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry.

Life is our dictionary

Thought is the bud, language the blossom and action the fruit behind it.

The etymologist finds the deadest words to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

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