Art Quote by Robert Burchfield Download Open image “Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.” — Robert Burchfield ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Fascinating Illuminating Inspirational Love Wells
The book, that stubbornly unelectric artifact of pure typography, possesses resources conducive to the flourishing of the soul. A thoughtful reading of the printed… — Douglas Groothuis Copy Share Image
A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which I found… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Language is art, language is imagery, music, rhythm, thought, responsibility and communication. With the extensive English vocabulary available to us, an abundance of words… — Ellen Palestrant Copy Share Image
And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an incredible thing… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
“All serious and good writing anticipates precisely this kind of reading-ruminative and leisurely, a dalliance with words in contrast to wolfing down information.” — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Books are where we go alone to complicate ourselves. Inside this solitude, we take on contours, textures, perspectives. Heightened language levitates the reader. Great… — John Leonard Copy Share Image
“In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life value of the facts… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
A text may be superbly written, exquisitely subtle, deeply meaningful, but still seem like a luxury extra, something we add to the already well-stocked… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
“What I really devoured . . . was the truculence of my hosts' language: the syntax may have been brutally sloppy, but it was oh so warm in its juvenile authenticity. I feasted on their words, yes, the words flowing at that get-together of country brothers, the sort of words that, at times, delight one much more than the pleasures… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share
I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores 1,500 years… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning and severed politically since… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are burdensome, flourish and die,… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
In 1776, at the point of severance, except for an infusion of words from east coast Indian languages, the English language of North America… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
At all periods of the [English] language it is difficult to assign a beginning date to most new words and meanings. They tend to… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere. — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
The language of Doctor Johnson and Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale, and that of their adult contemporaries, was the stately language of the time, polished,… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error. — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison. — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
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