Astute Quote by Eduardo Galeano

Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.

— Yasunari Kawabata

We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day…

— Gershom Scholem

We're living in a time when the sheer amount of language has exponentially increased. As writers, if we wish to be contemporary, I think…

— Kenneth Goldsmith

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

— Alice Walker

Will we allow the decline of our language-the language of Shakespeare, Shaw and Steinbeck? Will we abuse our precious gift of communication? Will we…

— Mike Nichols

We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It's crazy even to attempt to do that.

— Aleksandar Hemon

We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet. If each of us were to defy Alexander Pope and be the last…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

Language allows us to talk about the past and plan the future. We can teach children about things that are not present. And above…

— Jane Goodall

As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.

— Aleksandar Hemon

We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the…

— Chinua Achebe

We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless.

— Rebecca Solnit

“It is the very nature of language to form rather than inform. When language is personal, which it is at its best, it reveals;…

— Eugene Peterson