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Language Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- I remember nothing about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could not say 'a…
- No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it…
- I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and Literature. I do…
- My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: 'Back Esperanto loyally.
- It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to which they belong;…
- 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
- Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to…
- Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here…
- My name is growing all the time, and I’ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell…
- I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.
- Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any…
- In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and…
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