I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
“Every dictionary contains a world. I open a book of thieves’ slang from Queen Anne’s reign and they have a hundred words… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
So a lot of what you see in the Baroque Cycle is me wanting to be one of those guys. In the… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
German has always felt the language that I come back to. It's given a very hard time by most people for being… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
The language of images [of inner-oriented artists] does not follow a code structure that is evident and widely accepted, but is more… — Kenneth Coutts-Smith Copy Share Image
“Words got me into trouble. They are the deadliest weapons of all, so that now the gun seems almost innocent by comparison.… — Susan Fromberg Schaeffer Copy Share Image
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet. If each of us were to defy Alexander Pope and be… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music.… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
You can't think and play. If you think about what you're playing the playing becomes stilted. You have to just focus on… — Joe Pass Copy Share Image
When you used to be able to express yourself as an adult in your own language, or as I can do in… — Floor Jansen Copy Share Image
“The third (sphere in which the world of relation arises): Life with spiritual beings. Here the relations is wrapped in a cloud… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Puerto Rico is an island separated by an ocean, a language, a culture. All of that put it in a position where… — Nelson Antonio Denis Copy Share Image
So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm a champion for western civilization and, yes, our English language is a big part of it. It's a carrier of freedom.… — Steve King Copy Share Image
The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The bicycles go by in twos and threes - There's a dance in Billy Brennan's barn to-night, And there's the half-talk code… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
“The tongue is our most powerful weapon of manipulation. A frantic stream of words flows from us because we are in a… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The au pair was bug-eyed. "What happened back there?" "It's not our fault!" Dan babbled. "Those guys are crazy! They're like mini-Darth… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
Sorrowful words become the sorrowful; angry words suit the passionate; light words a playful expression; serious words suit the grave. [Lat., Tristia… — Horace Copy Share Image
The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the atheism which denies the existence of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
If we have to prove our Europeanism by accepting that French is the dominant language in the Community, then my answer is… — James Callaghan Copy Share Image
Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftists who attribute AIDS to some sort of… — Dennis Altman Copy Share Image
Regardless of your marital status, your age, or the language you speak, you are a beloved spirit daughter of Heavenly Father who… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
“Language itself is so value-laden as to render value-neutrality almost impossible. Growing up in England I was introduced to the American Revolution… — Arthur F. Holmes Copy Share Image
I had a very 'colorful' language, and every time I went to say something, Michael would cut me off with words like… — Debbie Rowe Copy Share Image
I think if we can't use the word feminist, if it's some kind of taboo or dirty word, or means you're ugly,… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
There is a direct parallel in the way that we speak, with natural variations of pitch and volume that give full meaning… — Howard Snell Copy Share Image
All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Language of the Gun shows why Bernard Harcourt has earned a reputation as one of our most provocative and informative analysts of… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
Here was opportunity to make an audience walk and move, be sociable in a way never dreamed of by the rigors of… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
The old view was that delicacy of language was part of the nature, the sacred nature, of eros and that to speak… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification… — John Frohnmayer Copy Share Image
Black English is simpler than standard English in some ways; for example, it often gets by with just 'be' and drops 'am,'… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
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![“Sorrowful words become the sorrowful; angry words suit the passionate; light words a playful expression; serious words suit the grave. [Lat., Tristia maestum Vultum verba decent; iratum, plena minarum; Ludentem, lasciva: severum, seria dictu.]” quote by Horace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/703/horace-172_angry_sorrowful-words-become-the-sorrowful-ang_2514714.jpg)
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