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Language Quotes by Robert Morgan
- What language shall I borrow To thank Thee, dearest Friend, For this, Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity without end? O make me Thine forever, And…
- I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
- It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
- In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.
- In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until…
- The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of…
- Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
- It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience. Maybe…
- Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form,…
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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
- 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
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. — Roger Babson
- 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
- Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we… — J. G. Ballard
- Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all… — Roland Barthes