So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. Not only did it require wrapping different sounds around the very movement of your soul, it involved learning things somehow already known, as though much of what he was somehow existed apart from him. A kind of enlightenment accompanied these first lessons, a deeper understanding of self.
R. Scott BakkerTag: philosophy language
A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
AberjhaniTag: poetry inspiration language light metaphors poets blossoms poem-in-your-pocket-day gardens dawn national-poetry-month famous-quotes world-poetry-day literary-inspiration quotes-about-poets midnight savannah-authors-and-poets
The subtleties of the mind cannot be transmitted in words, but can be seen in words.
Juefan HuihongDiscourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying you will make a man that will live longer than he.
Michel FoucaultTag: writing god language discourse
For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
Tag: words language voice new-year
The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
Simon Van BooyTag: silence language conversations
Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet.
It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones:
The history of how you felt.
Tag: writing people language legacy
Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind.
Patrick NessFor instance, take the two words "fuming" and "furious." Make up your mind that you will say both words, but leave it unsettled which you will say first. Now open your mouth and speak. If your thoughts incline ever so little towards " fuming," you will say "fuming-furious;" if they turn, by even a hair's breadth, towards "furious," you will say "furious-fuming;" but if you have the rarest of gifts, a perfectly balanced mind, you will say "frumious.
Lewis CarrollTag: language
Language is a bountiful gift and its usage, an elaboration of community and society, is a sacred work. Language and usage evolve over time: elements change, are reborn or forgotten, and while there are instances where transgression can become the source of an even greater wealth, this does not alter the fact that to become entitled to the liberties of playfulness or enlightened misuse of language, one must first and foremost have sworn one's total allegiance.
Muriel BarberyTag: language
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