2,489 Quotes About Language

In such troubled times, we must remember the value writers have—the value of inventing new language to keep pace with the rapidly transforming world around us.

The language and literature are ever absolute but their ideas are not!

The language and literature are ever absolute but their ideas are not! The ideas may keep on changing with the passage of time. In other words, the language and literature jointly put forward an approach that is ever dynamic.

Expansion History, and you came to the description of the triple sunrises you can see when you're hanging in Lsel Station's Lagrange point, and you thought, At last, there are words for how I feel, and they aren't even in my language―>Yes, Mahit says. Yes, she does. That ache: longing and a violent sort of self-hatred, that only made the longing sharper.We felt that way.

Expansion History, and you came to the description of the triple sunrises you can see when you're hanging in Lsel Station's Lagrange point, and you thought, At last, there are words for how I feel, and they aren't even in my language―>Yes, Mahit says. Yes, she does. That ache: longing and a violent sort of self-hatred, that only made the longing sharper.

Language is artificial, but our feelings are natural, inner, and universal. There are many languages, but feelings are the same for everyone. We can only describe it in different ways. A poet tries to sing the song of these feelings in different tunes with different music mixing with the inner emotions of the reader.

. . . language has been one of the first tools deployed in efforts to oppress others. Words are how we process the world, how we form our societies, how we codify our morals . . . All oppression in race, class, gender, ability, religion -- it all began with words.

Change Feminism to Gender Equality. change the label, not the idea.

Words are important, but not just as signifiers of ideas; they have their own rhythm, their own layering; pages sprinkled with hundreds of tiny mirrors, reflecting one another and bits of the world.