#lang

Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English. ↗

— Michael Moore

#did #english #even #first #handful

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#discovering #elementary #experience #far #go

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#dead #dead end #end #itself #kind

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#language #life #lives #may #meaning

I want a language that speaks the truth. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#language #speaks #truth #want

I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language. ↗

— Nana Mouskouri

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I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language. ↗