Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeStichwörter: poetry language expression prose
I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words.
Jeanette WintersonStichwörter: words reading books poetry literature language healing trauma
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Tarja MolesStichwörter: humour language finnish
At the very best, a mind enclosed in language is in prison. It is limited to the number of relations which words can make simultaneously present to it; and remains in ignorance of thoughts which involve the combination of a greater number. These thoughts are outside language, they are unformulable, although they are perfectly rigorous and clear and although every one of the relations they involve is capable of precise expression in words. So the mind moves in a closed space of partial truth, which may be larger or smaller, without ever being able so much as to glance at what is outside.
Simone WeilStichwörter: philosophy language simone-weil
It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
Alan W. WattsStichwörter: reality power-of-words language translation
Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt. Some say that the main cause of this very serious difficulty lies in the fact that human beings are basically made of clay, which, as the encyclopedias helpfully explain, is a detrital sedimentary rock made up of tiny mineral fragments measuring one two hundred and fifty-sixths of a millimeter. Until now, despite long linguistic study, no one has managed to come up with a name for this.
José SaramagoStichwörter: language vocabulary
(Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, "A man who speaks but one language understands none.
Orson Scott CardStichwörter: language pathfinder
Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication.
-Aunt Beast
Stichwörter: language language-learning language-understanding
Jokes are many things. 'Funny' is only one of them.
Melinda ChapmanStichwörter: humor politics language funny
I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. It's the very moment that they have to dig deeper than the surface to find words, and at the same time, it's a moment when they want to communicate very badly. They're digging deep and projecting out at the same time.
Anna Deavere SmithStichwörter: communication language
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