Language Quote by Anthony Burgess

“... for I had reached a point in my life when I came to view words differently. A closer look at language could reveal…

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

“Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land. ”

— Simon Van Booy

“You cannot choose the womb that houses you but you can determine the tomb that takes you home.”

— Ikechukwu Izuakor

“[...], the soul of man lives in his language.”

— Anouar Majid

“Language reveals the man. Speak that I may see thee.”

— Ben Johnson

“He was giving birth to groups of words.”

— Nathanael West

“Language is the house of Being.”

— Martin Heidegger

“You cannot choose the womb that carried you but you can determine the tomb that takes you home.”

— Ikechukwu Izuakor

“Talking, talking, spinning like a spell, pale skin of words that closes me in like a coffin.”

— John Gardner

“Language is like poppies. It just takes something to churn the earth round them up, and when it does up come the sleeping words,…

— Ali Smith

“The words are the words of English, but the sense is the sense of confusion.”

— Zenna Henderson

“Words were different when they lived inside you.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz