Aria Quote by Garth Greenwell

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

— Marilyn Hacker

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.

— Carlisle Floyd

It would be naïve to imagine that any analysis of experience is dependent on pattern expressed in language. Any concept, whether or not it…

— Edward Sapir

And I love Jane Austen's use of language too--the way she takes her time to develop a phrase and gives it room to grow,…

— Andrew Clements

When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all.

— Max Barry

Mastery of language affords remarkable power.

— Frantz Fanon

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

— Leo Ornstein

“One small step towards a language is one giant leap towards inclusion.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Language is complex, yet easy, and amazing.”

— Kimberly Loskov

Anguish is the universal language

— Alice Fulton

Contrary to the foolish notion that syntax is immaterial, people optimize the way they express themselves, and so express themselves differently with different syntaxes.

— Erik Naggum

“Language at its best is a useful tool, though by its very nature it artificially divides, reduces and over-simplifies. Hopefully,”

— Daniel M. Ingram