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Language Quotes by Adrienne Rich
- Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
- I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a…
- Experience is always larger than language.
- Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.
- I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a…
- In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
- A language is a map of our failures
- We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the…
- Lying is done with words and also with silence.
- Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
- Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever…
- I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in…
More Language Quotes
- Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by… — Hannah Arendt
- High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood
- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood
- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. — Diane Ackerman
- The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. — Roger Babson
- A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. — Gaston Bachelard
- In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can… — Michelle Bachelet
- An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot