Discovering Quote by Robert Morgan

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.…

— Robert Morgan

“Language had arrived from outer space and mated together lizards and monkeys or whatever until it had customized a host which could sustain it.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

— Thomas Lynch

I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that…

— Jacob Bronowski

“Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a child then, so I had only an intuitive…

— Banana Yoshimoto

I was in love with metaphors and similes and alliteration, just the play on the words. I was fascinated with that concept.

— Latto

On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never been mined.…

— Heather O'Neill

I think that is one of the first things that I got clear in my mind when I began to play around with fiction,…

— Chinua Achebe

I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself as poetry.…

— Edwin Morgan

“First was the abandonment of our native language and our unquestioned embrace of English, even though for my parents that abandonment meant cutting themselves…

— Alex Tizon

“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

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I…

— Plutarch