Ifs Quote by Philip Larkin Download Open image “A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him.” — Philip Larkin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ifs Language Mean Writing
You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it. — Ciaran Carson Copy Share Image
A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Not everyone who knows how to write can be a writer. Not everyone who knows two languages can be a translator.” — Nataly Kelly Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the… — Carmen Boullosa Copy Share Image
Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed or break. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
And immediately Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing,… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“Once I am sure there's nothing going on I step inside, letting the door thud shut. Another church: matting, seats, and stone, And little… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, age, and… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“It never worked for me. Something to do with violence A long way back, and wrong rewards, And arrogant eternity.” — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
So many things I had thought forgotten Return to my mind with stranger pain: Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who left the… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the same day as we do ourselves.” — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“I sit in my room like Miss Havisham, about whom I have been reading this week. Better the Dickens you know than the Dickens… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“When I throw back my head and howl People (women mostly) say But you've always done what you want, You always get your way… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
