#lang

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones. ↗

— Keith Richards

#emotions #keith-richards #language #music #the-rolling-stones

Music is the soul of language. ↗

— Max Heindel

#language #soul

...you do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands - call it a Muse ... ↗

— John Geddes

#forcing-words #language #muse #writing-advice #art

But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#nature #russia #nature

Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress ↗

— Paul Karl Feyerabend

#progress #science #science

[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing. ↗

— Aristophanes

#attributes #barter #character #demagoguery #government

Language by its very nature is naive,we make it complex and naughty. We make it look and sound like what it is not. ↗

— Nahiyan bin Asadullah

#nature

Roy memang gemar kemping, kemana saja ia mau. Karena baginya tidak ada yang lebih menyenangkan selain berada di alam terbuka, menikmati keagungan Tuhan. ↗

— Gola Gong

#alam #balada-si-roy #nature #petualangan #nature

It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it is a fact that Welsh affairs are entangled always in parabola, double-meaning and implication. This makes for a web-like interest.... ↗

— Jan Morris

#wales #nature

Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable. ↗

— Erwin Chargaff

#essays #language-literature #nature