Composition Quote by Walt Whitman

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used…

— Noam Chomsky

English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new…

— Willard Gaylin

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys,…

— Anonymous

English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.

— Vaclav Havel

Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

— Joy Kogawa

A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. ¦ Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.

— Anonymous

The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We…

— S. I. Hayakawa

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community…

— Noam Chomsky

Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus…

— Auguste Comte

A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

— Mahatma Gandhi

From now on I will consider a language to be a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length and constructed out…

— Noam Chomsky

“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just…

— James D. Nicoll