Language Quotes

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Because powerful images are fixed in the mind more readily than words, the photographer needs no interpreter. A photograph means the same thing all over… — Arthur Rothstein
The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception. — Guy Vanderhaeghe
Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style. — Massimo Vignelli
Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didnâ€™t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didnâ€™t need to belong to a language-oriented… — Etel Adnan
If you donâ€™t have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian languageâ€¦ you canâ€™t chant well. You cannotâ€¦ receive the images of poetry paints… — Unknown Author
The language with which I make my poems has nothing to do with one spoken here, or anywhere. — Ilya Kaminsky
I don't know anyone who has described that terrible yearning for ecstasy and immolation through music as lucidly as Sean Madigan Hoen in Songs Only… — Jaimy Gordon
Even in a crowded field, it is a rare pleasure to come across a prose stylist like Kellie Wells, whose intellect and language bid one… — Jaimy Gordon
They have our bundles split open in museums / our dresses & shirts at auctions / our languages on tape / our stories in locked… — Unknown Author
The angels in heaven covered their eyes with their hands and sobbed loudly, because that is what they always do when a man hits his… — Guus Kuijer
I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn't give what I… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Andy Brown is one of our most interesting and exciting younger poets. With its love of ideas and language, his work demonstrates that there need… — John Burnside
I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a writer telling a… — Sol Stein
What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language? — John Vaillant
I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way.… — Kenneth Branagh
There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually… — Kenneth Branagh
I start by using Chinese and many of the sounds of other languages are similar. — Andy Lau
I had a quick ear and could pick up languages. — Diane Cilento
Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by paragraph, so charged… — Peter Straub
The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he… — John Astin

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