A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W.H. AudenLatin is already a dead language, man... don't make it any deader.
Jerry ScottTags: humor language latin zits
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George OrwellTags: power-of-words language thought propaganda
On the whole I try to keep Modesty and Willie in timeless settings, which is why I avoid all the latest slang and in-words. It won't be long before 'brill' sounds as dated as 'super' does now. [Uncle Happy, 1990]
Peter O'DonnellTags: time language slang setting pop-culture chronology
Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words.
I don't believe in "sadness", "joy", or "regret".
Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that is oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions.
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Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
Rita Mae BrownThe language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.
Courtney LoveTags: love death language suicide
Vielleicht ist es so, dass nur das, was nicht ausgesprochen worden ist, durchlebt werden muss.
J.M. CoetzeeTags: language
Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of words indefinitely. This is advantageous on the one hand but dangerous on the other. The result is that we have developed a kind of false security where language is concerned, and our sensitivity to language has deteriorated. And we have become in proportion insensitive to silence.
N. Scott MomadayTags: writing language oral-tradition
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