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Language Quotes by Marilyn Hacker
- Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory…
- There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the…
- Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the…
- The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
- The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in…
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- It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis… — Andre Agassi
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- Part of what makes a language 'alive' is its constant evolution. I would hate to think Britain would ever emulate France, where… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two… — Ambrose Bierce
- I would like a world full of love. But remember, that love has no opposite to it. It is simply because you… — Rajneesh
- The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and… — A A Milne
- I hope you never hear those words. Your mom. She died. They are different than other words. They are too big to… — Mitch Albom