Dams Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“natural language will always remain the basic interpretation of, and reservoir for, the development of the artificial formalized languages of science.”

— Doris Bradbury

A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.

— Philip Glass

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

— Jacques Derrida

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.

— Suzanne Vega

Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge.

— Jim Rohn

“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 a systematic verbal symbolism.

— RMKATTA

A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates.

— Kathy Acker

“Formal writing does not mean gratuitously fancy writing; it means clear, clean, maximally considerate writing.”

— David Foster Wallace

To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is an act…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.

— Michael Helm

There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of…

— Washington Irving