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Language Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
- I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked…
- Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in…
- The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. I feel closer to what language can't reach. With…
- Sometime we will have to stop overevaluating the word. We shall learn to realize that it is only one of the many bridges that connect…
- Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a…
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- 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