Blitz Quote by Lauren Oliver

“Our language is an imperfect instrument created by ancient and ignorant men. It is an animistic language that invites us to talk about stability…

— Semanticist Wendell Johnson

“Language is a metaphor for experience. It’s as arbitrary as the mass of chaotic images we call memory–but we can put it into lines…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“Like Chaos, before the world was created”

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

“The power of language – it can heal and build, or corrupt, poison, destroy, desecrate, annihilate…”

— Daniel S. Fletcher

“Language has been mobilised and sent into battle; it directs the human carnage of conflict with its enunciation of emotion, stimulating souls to abandon…

— Daniel S. Fletcher

when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.

— Anonymous

“The 20th century linguistic revolution is the recognition that language is not merely a device for communicating ideas about the world, but rather a…

— Oliver Benjamin

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

How amazing that the language of a few thousand savages living on a fog-encrusted island in the North Sea should become the language of…

— Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley

All men have poetry in their hearts, and it is necessary for them, as much as possible, to express their feelings. For this they…

— Rabindranath Tagore

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

— Sean Lennon

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

— Antonin Artaud