#language

Every poet knows that the gift of the gods is not fire but language. “Man dwells poetically on this earth,” Hölderin wrote. Language is the essence of being human. We can think, thanks to language, for thought exists only by the grace of words. Our experiences and emotions are molded by language. It is language that allows us to name and know the world. We ourselves are known by language, through prayer, confession, poetry. Language gives us a world that reaches beyond the reality of the moment, to a past (there was…) and a future (there shall be…). It is through language that eternity has a space and that the dead continue to speak: “Defunctus adhuc loquitur” (Hebrews 11:4). Thanks to language, there is meaning, there is truth. ↗

— Rob Riemen

#meaning #poetry #truth #words #experience

I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

#attention #better #calling #explained #human

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#greatest #greatest obstacle #international #language #obstacle

Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you. ↗

— Robert Henri

#conventions #did #established #fall #help

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. ↗

— Buck Henry

#language #least #need #president #who

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

#another #difficult #language #sometimes #well

Each time a language dies, another flame goes out, another sound goes silent. ↗

— Ariel Sabar

#language-learning #life #tradition #life

I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter. ↗

— Yakov Smirnoff

#ever #god #happily #i #i believe

You couldn't have human society without language. ↗

— John M. Smith

#human society #language #society #without #you

We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#adapt #ask #capacity #child #come