Climbs Quote by John Dryden

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

— Joan Didion

“To understand a tree, one must study its roots.”

— Galen Beckett

There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.

— Anthony Burgess

The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.

— Constance Hale

“It is a remarkable phenomenon that children can learn to speak without ever being consciously aware of the sophisticated grammar they are using.”

— Timothy Gowers

You can't see the semantic wood for the syntactic trees.

— Christopher Strachey

“Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs.”

— Anonymous

“If we are the trees, words are our roots; and we grow as we write”

— Munia Khan

Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms.

— Frederick Lenz

I still have trouble identifying grammatical structures by name, though I know them as matters of usage.

— Robertson Davies

“ Grammar, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet of the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.”

— Ambrose Bierce

Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands.

— Eric Sevareid