Body Quote by Richard M. Weaver

“Words are a mirror of their times. By looking at the areas in which the vocabulary of a language is expanding fastest in a…

— John Ayto

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

The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified…

— George Edward Woodberry

“Written language may have been conceived as a modest way of describing reality, bit it gradually became a powerful way to reshape reality.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Language is the gateway of the mind and a bridge that connects us to other human beings. Language enables a person to share their…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or…

— Rebecca Solnit

Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

— Molly Haskell

“Words have a force far beyond that of ink stains on pages or spoken sounds... Whether written or spoken, language found in forbidden books…

— Daniel Harms

“Language is the medium of literature, and the state of the language at any time can hardly fail to carry literary consequences.”

— J.A. Burrow

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

We have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language.

— Jean Berko Gleason

“A language brings with it a mass of perceptions, clichés, judgements and inspirations.”

— Nicholas Ostler