Quotes About Language

There is no articulate resonance. The common problem, I suppose, is to have more to say than vocabulary and syntax can bear. That is why I am hunting in these desiccated streets. The smoke hides the sky's variety, stains consciousness, covers the holocaust with something safe and insubstantial. It protects from greater flame. It indicates fire, but obscures the source. This is not a useful city. Very little here approaches any eidolon of the beautiful.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

Trochee trips from long to short;From long to long in solemn sortSlow Spondee stalks.

Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to metre. The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication, of truth; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

I can't see words without reading them.

Please forgive me, Mother. I apologize for saying 'fuck.'" Then he straightened and addressed Doug. "Which, by the way, was repeated sixty-seven times in this particular film. It has a running length of ninety-four minutes. So last night while watching it, she heard fuck, or a derivative thereof, spoken every one and a half minutes, give or take a few seconds. But if my saying fuck offended her, then I'm fucking sorry.

Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water.

Kalimera," said softly. Ivy sighed

kukirim padamu beberapa patah kata yang sudah langka – jika suatu hari nanti mereka mencapaimu, rahasiakan, sia-sia aja memahamiku

When it comes to linguistic form, Plato walks with the Macedonian swineherd, Confucius with the head-hunting savage of Assam.

Although they are only breath, words which I command are immortal

What creature is it that is female in nature and hides in its womb unborn children who, although they are voiceless, speak to people far away? The female creature is a letter. The unborn children are the letters (of the alphabet) it carries. And the letters, although they have no voices, speak to people far away.

Although only breath, words which I speak are immortal.

Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.

Sadece Hava da olsa, ölümsüzdür dilimdeki sözcükler

Your mind is an automobile and words are your wheels.

Besides, too much time around normal people made me feel like an alien, unwanted and ugly, fluent in a different language.

German reminded her of an old man hacking up phlegm.

Edinburgh is alive with words.