#lang

Hay una estrella mas abierta que la palabra 'amapola'? Is there a star more wide open than the word 'poppy"? ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#nature #poetry #stars #words #nature

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas. ↗

— Eric Bentley

#bright #genuine #ideas #instead #jargon

The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#power #nature

We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us. ↗

— Eugene H. Peterson

#theology

When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#different #different language #language #words #work

It is time for dead languages to be quiet. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#languages #quiet #time

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#confront #excessive #hysteria #impoverished #language

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#handle #kind #language #practice #skillfully

I've just done a film in the United States. It's a thriller called 'A Crime', with Harvey Keitel, we play against each other, and it's so great to play in another language. But I'm definitely not American. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#american #another #called #crime #definitely

Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always screw it up. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#conservatives #heart #language #music #screw