Quotes About Language

Not everything written on Kafka is Kafkology. How then to define Kafkology? By a tautology: Kafkology is discourse for Kafkologizing Kafka. For replacing Kafka with the Kafkologized Kafka.

Con las metáforas no se juega. El amor puede surgir de una sola metáfora.

And suddenly he realized that all his life he had done nothing but talk, write, lecture, concoct sentences, search for formulations and amend them, so in the end no words were precise, their meanings were obliterated, their meaning lost, they turned into trash, chaff, dust, sand; prowling through his brain, tearing at his head, they were his insomnia, his illness.

Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.

Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love

There is nothing harder to explain than humor.

El amor puede surgir de una sola metáfora.

O amor começa com uma metáfora. Ou, por outras palavras, o amor começa no preciso instante em que, com uma das suas palavras, uma mulher se inscreve na nossa memória poética.

Metaphors are not to be trifled with.

El amor empieza en el momento en que una mujer inscribe su primera palabra en nuestra memoria poética.

The invention of printing formerly enabled people to understand one another. In the era of universal graphomania, the writing of books has an opposite meaning: everyone surrounded by his own words as by a wall of mirrors, which allows no voice to filter in from the outside.

los símbolos, como sabemos, son intocables

Conversation with his wife was easy, Danish having turned into a private jargon for themselves. But with other people he was always conscious of choosing his words, constructing a sentence, watching his accent. It seemed to him that when Danes talked they were running nimbly, while he was trudging along behind, lugging a twenty-kilo load.

El amor empieza por una metáfora. Dicho de otro modo: el amor empieza en el momento en que una mujer inscribe su primera palabra en nuestra memoria poética.

Un mundo en el que toda la gente se tutea no es el mundo de la amistad generalizada sino el mundo de la falta de respeto generealizada.

metaphors are dangerous.

l'amour commence à l'instant où une femme s'inscrit par une parole dans notre mémoire poétique.

But although they had a clear understanding of the logical meaning of the words they exchanged, they failed to hear the semantic susurrus of the river flowing through them.

Forse se fossero rimasti insieme ancora per qualche tempo, avrebbero cominciato a capire poco a poco le parole che dicevano. I loro vocaboli si sarebbero pudicamente e lentamente avvicinati l'uno all'altro come amanti molto timidi, e la musica dell'uno avrebbe cominciato a intrecciarsi con la musica dell'altro.

Die deutsche Sprache ist die Sprache der schweren Wörter

cuvintele obiÈ™nuite sunt f?cute spre a se stinge de îndat? ce au fost rostite, ele n-au alt scop decât acela de a servi în momentul comunic?rii; ele sunt supuse lucrurilor È™i nu sunt decât însemnul acestora; dar iat? c? aceste cuvinte deveniser? ele însele lucruri È™i nu erau subordonate sau supuse la nimic; nu mai erau destinate comunic?rii imediate È™i dispariÈ›iei rapide, ci d?inuirii.

Quem vive no exterior caminha num espaço vazio acima do solo sem a rede de proteção que o país de origem estende a todo ser humano, onde ele tem família, colegas, amigos, e onde é compreendido sem dificuldade no idioma que sabe falar desde a infância.

Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Music was the negation of sentences, music was the anti-word!