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Posted on November 13, 2020October 23, 2020

Knut Hamsun On Language

Knut Hamsun (August 4, 1859 – February 19, 1952) Language must resound with all the harmonies of music. The writer must always, at all times, find the tremulous word which captures the thing and is able to draw a sob from my soul by its very rightness. A word can be transformed into a color, …

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Posted on September 23, 2020September 3, 2020

Grace Paley On Language

Grace Paley (December 11, 1922 - August 22, 2007) My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

Posted on June 21, 2020June 18, 2020

William Godwin On Multiple Languages

William Godwin (March 3, 1756–April 7, 1836) He that is acquainted with only one language, will probably always remain in some degree the slave of language… But the man who is competent to and exercised in the comparison of languages, has attained to his proper elevation. Language is not his master, but he is the …

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Posted on April 7, 2020March 19, 2020

William Godwin On Language

William Godwin (March 3, 1756–April 7, 1836) Words are of the utmost importance to human understanding. Almost all the ideas employed by us in matters of reasoning have been acquired by words. In our most retired contemplations we think for the most part in words; and upon recollection can in most cases easily tell in …

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Posted on January 4, 2019January 2, 2019

Edward Hall On Language

Edward T Hall (May 16, 1914 – July 20, 2009) The paradox of culture is that language, the system most frequently used to describe culture, is by nature poorly adapted to this difficult task. It is too linear, not comprehensive enough, too slow, too limited, too constrained, too unnatural, too much a product of its …

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Posted on December 26, 2018December 24, 2018

Rebecca Solnit On Lies And Language

Rebecca Solnit (June 24, 1961 -) There are so many ways to tell a lie. You can lie by ignoring whole regions of impact, omitting crucial information, or unhitching cause and effect; by falsifying information by distortion and disproportion, or by using names that are euphemisms for violence or slander for legitimate activities, so that …

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Posted on October 3, 2018January 24, 2019

Niels Bohr On Language And Religion

Niels Bohr (October 7, 1885–November 18, 1962) We ought to remember that religion uses language in quite a different way from science. The language of religion is more closely related to the language of poetry than to the language of science. True, we are inclined to think that science deals with information about objective facts, …

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Posted on September 3, 2018July 21, 2019

Jeanette Winterson On Language

Jeanette Winterson (August 27, 1959 -) For me, language is a freedom. As soon as you have found the words with which to express something, you are no longer incoherent, you are no longer trapped by your own emotions, by your own experiences; you can describe them, you can tell them, you can bring them …

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Posted on July 29, 2018July 26, 2019

Stanley Kunitz On Language

Stanley Kunitz (July 29, 1905– May 14, 2006) I used to sit in that green Morris chair and open the heavy dictionary on my lap, and find a new word every day. It was a big word, a word like eleemosynary or phantasmagoria - some word that, on the tongue, sounded great to me, and …

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