#language

Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#arabic #areas #behind #chinese #combined

Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language. ↗

— John Milius

#create #drama #how #image #language

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#considered #cut #decisive #language #observed

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#become #best #fiction #invisible #itself

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#books #critic #describe #had #home

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

#discovering #elementary #experience #far #go

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#attention #calls #definition #form #language

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 want a language that speaks the truth. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#language #speaks #truth #want

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

— Holly Near

#food #language #like #songs #think