#language

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

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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

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

— Nana Mouskouri

#each #i #language #respectful #sing

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

— Paul Muldoon

#believe #devices #i #i believe #i believe that

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish. ↗

— Mike Myers

#i #know #language #like #linda

Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#audience #been #blockbusters #brought #down

The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

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Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#composer #create #each #his #involved

Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

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