Asteroids Quote by Aaron Belz

Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of…

— Alice McDermott

I think words are the thing that either triumphs for you, in your desire to communicate something, or fails. I love language because when…

— Claudia Rankine

Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

— Joy Kogawa

There are words that exist in one language and not in another language. It creates barriers that keep us from understanding each other. I'm…

— Jenova Chen

I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.

— Steven Pinker

Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.

— Lisel Mueller

It is just so satisfying to create work that is beyond the framework of language. I think for me that when I make art,…

— Truong Tran

Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind. Their amazing variety is a constant delight. I do…

— George Armitage Miller

I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening…

— Rae Armantrout

Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Reading or written language is a cultural invention that necessitated totally new connections among structures in the human brain underlying language, perception, cognition, and,…

— Maryanne Wolf

I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.

— Fernando Pessoa