Language Quotes

"Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think" "The name of the rose is a mere symptom of our nostalgia for a time when names meant something." "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." "Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'." "I am not one of those who believe that taking drugs produces a permanent bettering of the human mind. Every great writer, every genuine artist, has had the experience of being intoxicated by language." "Language is the dress of thought" "We're fascinated by the words—but where we meet is in the silence behind them." "Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock." "Nothing has really happened until it has been described" "To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark" "The production of ideas of conceptions of consciousness is at first directly interwoven with the material activity and the material intercourse of men the language of real life" "Communication: the thing humans forgot when we invented words." "Language is the house of Being." "Words are loaded pistols." "What we speak becomes the house we live in" "Music connects souls, regardless of borders or languages." "A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use." "All art is autobiographical; all meaning is linguistic; all narratives are ideoplastic." "All language is but a poor translation" "What's another word for Thesaurus?"