Poetry is a second translation of the soul's feeling; it must be rendered into thought, and thought must change its nebulous robe… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“We seek a metaphor for holy words that will return them to us once again as an ayfz hayim, a tree of… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
“Post-structuralism is a reaction to structuralism and works against seeing language as a stable, closed system. It is a shift from seeing… — E. Smith Sleigh Copy Share Image
That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about.… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes ... We cannot understand it if we do not… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
When am I gonna understand and accept the fact that its over? O-V-E-R, its just a simple word that's so hard to… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
I'd read Shakespeare in school, translated into isiXhosa, and loved the stories, but I hadn't realised before I started reading the English… — John Kani Copy Share Image
RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“In the wildlife sanctuaries of literature, we study the species of speech, the flight patterns of individual words, the herd behavior of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Copy Share Image
You live in a society that is shaped in every possible way by the Bible. The language you use, the laws you… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
I have found in every word a certain musical value, a melody in every thought, harmony in every feeling, and I have… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Colour is uncontainable. It effortlessly reveals the limits of language and evades our best attempts to impose a rational order on it… — David Batchelor Copy Share Image
Donna E. Smyth - adventures with words; she is always doing something new and unique. Beginning with her visceral morality, her stories… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The internet, like social media, seems to me to depend on how you use it, where you spend your time on it.… — Micheline Aharonian Marcom Copy Share Image
My sense of humor keeps me from committing atrocities! I love rearranging words and destroying language and the established forms of art… — Alan Bishop Copy Share Image
I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have… — Madhur Bhandarkar Copy Share Image
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Many young people today do not concern themselves with style. They think that what one says should be said simply and that… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
[Sigmund ] Freud did not under-stand that the dream is a highly creative act, written in the universal language of symbolism, and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Don't you find it odd that two of the foremost symptoms of insanity are the hearing voices and talking to oneself? Is… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
“If someday I make a dictionary of definitions wanting single words to head them, a cherished entry will be "To abridge, expand,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Well, at the end of our movie Fireproof, we released a book that my brother Stephen and I wrote called The Love… — Alex Kendrick Copy Share Image
More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement… — Benjamin Lee Whorf Copy Share Image
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... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
If you see a child with autistic-like behaviors at age two and three, the worst thing you can do is just let… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively ... For words… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It's not like it's a brand new vocabulary that permits to have a new reality. It's rather a new vocabulary that lets… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
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