Language Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

“ Poetry And it was at that age... Poetry arrived in search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know where it came from,…

— Pablo Neruda

“Words made you laugh and history fell apart into tales and isolated mysteries threatening to be trivial.”

— Joseph McElroy

“He fills my head with tales from the ancient forests, tales so old that the trees themselves call them legends. It is as if…

— Maryrose Wood

“The etymologist finds the deadest words to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Ah, that is the miracle of the written word. It beckons our unconscious out of hiding. It tells us things we need to know,…

— Amy Gail Hansen

“There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden. Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.”

— Toba Beta

“O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew nothing. One lived and ran about the earth and…

— Herman Hesse

“He is everything she expected, all that she seeks: hushed, musical eerie voice, dark looks, dreamy haunted expression, an adventurer of the imagination. Words…

— Orna Ross

“A story is a labyrinth, it looks as if there were several ways to go, but only one is right, and there's a nasty…

— Cornelia Funke

Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them,…

— Leigh Hunt

“Now and then there are readings that make the hairs on the neck, the non-existent pelt, stand on end and tremble, when every word…

— A.S. Byatt

“I confess that neither the structure of language, nor the code of governments, nor the politics of various states possessed attractions for me. It…

— Mary Shelley