Quotes About Language

Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.

Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

The word is a force you cannot see, but you can see the manifestation of that force, the expression of the word, which is your own life.

There's just certain accents that you can and can't do. And the Scottish accent was one that came quite naturally to me, which is weird because I have no one in my life who's Scottish.

The supremacy of the verbal over the monumental has something about it of the supremacy of life over death.

A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits.

It's not enough simply to record the way people actually talk. The dialogue must be concentrated, shaped, dramatically moving, in a way that real-life conversation seldom is.

Music has always been a big part of my life, it moves me, it educates me and it makes me grow. It is a fantastic language to help you explore ideas.

Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of your life and things like that.

The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.

I've always felt very comfortable with accents. Once I get an accent, I can do it, and that's just something I've been able to do my whole life.

The poem is not a physical body. It's a textual body that has life only insofar as it can act symbolically. It cannot physically act.

I do want to do the entire alphabet. There's in [Walker's Alphabet] a poem called "A Life" in that grouping. I was going to change that title to "A."

For one thing, I don't pun excessively in real life.

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.

My accent has changed my whole life. When I was younger it was very Nigerian, then when we went to England it was very British.

I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life.

Words of the world are the life of the world.

Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a set means of instruction but as a social necessity.

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.

I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language.

His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn't even know that guys could turn me on-not, like, in real life

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

It's very rare that someone who is so good at the language of numbers, is as good at the language of life. They're two very different worlds.