Age Quote by Peter Brodie

It is not important what is said, what is important is what is heard.

— Anonymous

Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language…

— Iris Murdoch

The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those…

— Adrienne Rich

“Language is a living being that grows and dies. It can be healthy, sick, nurtured, or malnourished. It all depends on those using it.…

— Louis Yako

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about…

— Howard Nemerov

Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

— Garry Winogrand

Talk about painting: there's no point. By conveying a thing through the medium of language, you change it. You construct qualities that can be…

— Gerhard Richter

The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.

— Jacques Derrida

“Language is the element of definition, the defining and descriptive incantation. It puts the coin between our teeth. It whistles the boat up. It…

— Charles Wright

I think language is the most important thing that human beings have ever accomplished, and the only thing that's really going to get us…

— Paul Bettany

The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.

— Toni Morrison

I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become…

— John McGahern