Quotes about Language

By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan.

What can't be known or named except in our feeble attempt to clothe it in language.

If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.

People love to talk about the things that are important to them, but oftentimes as a journalist, if you're entering a world that's pretty esoteric and difficult to penetrate and has many barriers to outsiders, then the people inside that world just don't have the same language as you do.

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.

Learning how to rap actually improved my English, because it forced me to talk fast, and I used to suck at that.

Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.

Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things sooner or later fall into place. As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are.

Life is our dictionary

Thought is the bud, language the blossom and action the fruit behind it.