Constant Quote by Elizabeth Drew

Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

— Joy Kogawa

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud…

— Gilbert Highet

Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words…

— Joshua Foer

There is a language beyond human language, an elemental language, one that arises from the land itself.

— Linda Hogan

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

— Rita Mae Brown

I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you can use…

— Blake Butler

Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and…

— Edward Hirsch

Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

— Garry Winogrand

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community…

— Noam Chomsky

Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.

— Storm Jameson

There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of…

— Washington Irving

Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.

— Simon Van Booy