I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored.
Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.
The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.
Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times.
Words are containers for power
Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death.
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.
Economics is like the Dutch language - I'm told it makes sense, but I have my doubts.
We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.
I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language.
Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.
I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and Literature. I do not care which of them you think White.
Ideas do not exist separately from language.
i couldn't speak the language of his feelings
I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.
Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with the language, stirring it up. And prose is not doing that. Primarily it's not attempting to do that.
words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need none more powerful. Language is a fifth element - the one by which all the others are swayed.
What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.
Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.
We have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language. . .