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- Every man prays in his own language. — Duke Ellington
- This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to… — Gaston Bachelard
- Strange bent over these things, with a concentration to rival Minervois's own, questioning, criticizing and proposing. Strange and the two engravers spoke… — Susanna Clarke
- The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of… — Paul de Man
- Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure… — Augustine Birrell
- Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language. — Leo Ornstein
- The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think… — Bill Vaughan
- An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later… — Henri Matisse
- He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish. — Jose Rizal
- She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent… — Hermann Hesse
- He who knows other languages feels even closer to his own language. — Kató Lomb
- It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of… — Walter Benjamin