#language

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#captures #humankind #language #past

The threads of malice creeping toward him from Beloved's side of the table were held harmless in the warmth of Sethe's smile. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#imagery #beauty

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 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

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think. ↗

— Holly Near

#food #language #like #songs #think

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

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#gone #higher #him #his #history

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! ↗

— Manuel Puig

#create #hard #her #his #language

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. ↗

— George Orwell

#corrupt #corrupts #language #thought