#language

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#help #language #only #poetry #prevent

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#concrete #control #feeling #i #language

I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting. ↗

— Mike Thompson

#drawing #i #i think #inborn #just

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury. ↗

— John Bright

#knowledge #languages #luxury #mainly

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#any #inevitable #language #more #state

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#hidden #language #like #moon #power

You who speak languages, you are such liars. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#liars #speak #such #who #you

I see tendencies, I see body language. ↗

— Michael Chang

#body language #i #i see #language #see

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#beautiful words #common #common language #four #i

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#behind #discussion #find #framework #kind