Areas Quote by Ogden Nash

“We lack the analogies’ was itself somehow deficient as a diagnosis, linguists burning up during re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere after encountering Area X.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

My linguistics is pretty theoretical.

— Noam Chomsky

I wrote poems and an essay about that weird language. We still remember it to a certain extent, and it still comes up when…

— Paul Beatty

Language is the soul’s ozone layer and we thin it at our peril.

— Sven Birkerts

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree…

— Anonymous

Language is fossil Poetry.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Linguistics is arguably the most hotly contested property in the academic realm. It is soaked with the blood of poets, theologians, philosophers, philologists, psychologists,…

— Russ Rymer

How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.

— Jack Gilbert

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.

— Terence McKenna

I never thought of that one, that linguistics could be driving cultural things. There are some thoughts that that does happen in humans, that…

— Hal Whitehead

Anguish is the universal language

— Alice Fulton