Quotes about Language

Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied.

Terminological inexactitude

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.

Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange. It is only by alienating the desired that language masters it. The frenzy of desire in the medium of words yields the mania of the catalogue. I struggle with the proverbs of hell.

Moer and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth in South Africa.

To Slim Gaillard the whole world was just one big orooni.

Begin not from preconceived idea of what to say about image but from jewel center of interest in subject of image at moment of writing, and write outwards swimming in sea of language to peripheral release and exhaustion.

Sometimes, words are twisted and don't reach people in their intended way.

I think the word 'blog' is an ugly word. I just don't know why people can't use the word 'journal.'