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- If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music… — A. R. Ammons
- One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor… — J.R.R. Tolkien
- The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for… — Douglas Hofstadter
- The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just… — Steven Pinker
- Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born... — Aldous Huxley
- History has blessed us with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of the accident… — Charles Krauthammer
- Where mathematics and spirit join, where proof of the existence of mystery-salvific mystery-shimmers just below the surfaces of human perception, experience and… — Jorie Graham
- Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant… — Carol P. Christ
- What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism — Paul de Man
- We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing… — Manuel De Landa
- Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by… — Jonathan Franzen
- There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect… — Victor Pelevin