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Language Quotes by Paul Celan
- A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the –not always greatly…
- I went with my very being toward language.
- With wine and being lost, with less and less of both: I rode through the snow, do you read me I rode God far--I rode…
- Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.
- Reachable, near and not lost, there remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language. It, the language, remained, not lost, yes, in…
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- 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
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- 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