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Language Quotes by June Jordan
- Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness unless you attack…
- As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of…
- Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying,…
- As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of…
- The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was…
- One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages 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
- 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