#lang

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#british #definitely #distinguish #english #english language

When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#also #created #film #language #only

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#language #love #sometimes #spoken #today

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#attitudes #away #beauty #because #certain

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#almost #complex #even #exciting #great

The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#beer #encyclopedia #every #free #free speech

To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#create #distribute #doing #encyclopedia #every

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us. ↗

— Alice Walker

#good #happened #intrinsic #language #part

If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#bible #discussion #done #going #iraq

I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age. ↗

— Chris Ware

#age #believe #destroys #development #i