2,489 Quotes About Language

It may be that poetry’s real beauty and elegance is not its finely-chiseled lines or smoothly-rounded ideological concepts at all. The crown of its significance might be––or possibly should be?––its expansive capacity to embrace with equal passion the deadliest failings and the most splendid victories defining human existence.

The Art of Writing for Children is the knowledge of what is significant to them

Don't live by your thoughts only; live by your words also. Whatever plans you think about, affirm it in your mouth first, declare it and you will succeed in working it out! Words can be powerful!

We can never know more than the mind can assimilate and process, nor can we discuss any aspect of the world for which there is no language.

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter.

Language is the art of experience

Poetry is alive because it is a medium of vision and experience. It is not necessarily comfortable.It is not necessarily safe.

There's a world of difference between, "Look at this mess you made!" and "I don't like to see food on the floor!