Alpine Quote by Martha Ronk Download Open image “Language is as fragile as the little alpine plant.” — Martha Ronk ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alpine Fragile Language Littles Plant
Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust itsvitality. It needs… — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art. — E. L. James Copy Share Image
“Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art… — E L James Copy Share Image
“Language is like poppies. It just takes something to churn the earth round them up, and when it does up come the sleeping words,… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“Languages are like beings: they thrive, take a dive, and need care to survive.” — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
Even your own memory changes over time because of circumstances or even because your body changes. — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
I can't remember the past, or I can't see very clearly, or I've gotten older and the person I was isn't there anymore, and… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
I want literature to open all the doors that I can't open by myself, and to allow me to see things that I wouldn't… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying to write… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
I know that in some ways I operate from a kind of antiquated interest in imagery, while many contemporary poets are not so interested… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the fragility of things, and with special urgency now because of climate change, but also because of the accidents… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
“He finds me charming and so long as I don't think about it, it's ok, but I worry, what if I forget to do… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
Everyone had always told me I had to see alpine flowers, since I was writing about flowers, and I had never seen these. So… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
I think about the kinds of gardens that Queen Elizabeth put up. She made gardens in the shape of an "E," for Elizabeth, just… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I like immersing myself in different texts, putting myself in the company of other writers, is that they do change… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
Our mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil. — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work. — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
There are believers who by God's grace, have climbed the mountains of full assurance and near communion, their place is with the eagle in… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I'm halfway through a novel set in two time frames - Austin in the 1960's and Alpine (Texas) in present day. It started out… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
The burning of fossil fuels has altered the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere so rapidly and so abundantly that now, we are… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow Fabled of… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Everyone had always told me I had to see alpine flowers, since I was writing about flowers, and I had never seen these. So… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet,… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; Burghers and dames, at summer's prime, Ride out… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The solitary ascent of the Dru had the immediate effect of expanding the horizons of my ideas about mountaineering. It made me aware of… — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
