Astonishing Quote by Paul Di Filippo

The only love language is 'die to self.'

— Christine Caine

“To try to write love is to confront the muck of language; that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too…

— Roland Barthes

Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more ‘I love…

— Roland Barthes

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too…

— Roland Barthes

The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected combinations of…

— Anonymous

I love those moments on stage, on screen and in life when you dispense with language, when you sort of transcend it in a…

— Cate Blanchett

How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.

— Jim Harrison

This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.

— Laura Marling

“I wanted this complex language, this surge of intellect, to be processed into love. Isn’t how they used to do it a century ago,…

— Gary Shteyngart

“Every writer dreams of a perfect language. Every writer dreams of a language that obeys, that comes to heel. For some this language is…

— Helen Marshall

“We hear death in words they speak to express sensual bliss. We read sensuality and life in words they drop from their lips without…

— Fernando Pessoa