Literature And Language Quotes
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Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.
— Jeanette Winterson
The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.
— Roland Barthes
We may differ in the language we speak, yet we all remain children of the land.
— John Okechukwu Munonye
Language is the key to the heart of people.
— Ahmed Deedat
All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.
— Jennifer Stone
Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.
— Jamie L. Harding
I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.
— Muriel Barbery
Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.
— Daniel Tammet
No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.
— Rita Mae Brown
Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Mathematics to me is like a language I don't speak though I admire its literature in translation.
— David Quammen
When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.
— D.H. Lawrence
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
— George Bernard Shaw
Literature is the right use of language irrespective of the subject or reason of utterance.
— Evelyn Waugh
A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers - a language powerful enough to say how it is.
— Jeanette Winterson
A boy trying out a man's language.
— Eowyn Ivey
Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
— Henry James
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
— Ezra Pound
Our language and literature are without a doubt Britain's greatest contribution to the cultural heritage of the world.
— Tessa Jowell
There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to our own languages.
— Amish Tripathi
In general,' Voss replied, 'it is necessary to communicate without knowledge of the language.
— Patrick White
I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.
— Jean-Jacques Annaud
Literature is language charged with meaning
— Ezra Pound
I have not tried to write the history of that language, but rather the archaeology of that silence.
— Michel Foucault
Cats speak the language of comfort and coolness and therefore we feel comfortable and cool whenever we see a cat!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.
— Terry Eagleton
Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language
— Anthony Burgess
Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature.
— Carlos Fuentes
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
— Gaston Bachelard
Anything that keeps old words in circulation is to be treasured, the French revolution be damned.
— Joseph Bottum
The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.
— Edwin Muir
God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the nature of cause and forces.
— Richard Brookhiser
Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination.
— Northrop Frye
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
— Thomas Bulfinch
Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer
