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Language Quotes by Umberto Eco
- A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation…
- I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.
- Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the…
- Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is…
- As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the…
- Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
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- 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
- 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