#language

Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute. ↗

— Robert Herrick

#love #tears #tomgue #true #words

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence. ↗

— Simon Van Booy

#language #silence #love

there is [...] a last even of last times of saying if you do not love me I shall not be loved if I do not love you I shall not love ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#love #love

I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#love #love

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#literature #shakespeare #love

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#love

To touch a person...to sleep with a person...is to become a pioneer," she whispered then, "a frontiersman at the edge of their private world, the strange, incomprehensible world of their interior, filled with customs you could never imitate, a language which sounds like your own but is really totally foreign, knowable only to them. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#love #relationships #love

I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking. ↗

— Robert Stack

#first #france #french #gravitate #grew

The language itself, whether you speak it or not, whether you love it or hate it, is like some bewitchment or seduction from the past, drifting across the country down the centuries, subtly affecting the nations sensibilities even when its meaning is forgotten. ↗

— Jan Morris

#wales #love

A body is a body, but only voices are capable of love ↗

— Ricardo Piglia

#love #voices #love