#Language

"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."

"Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt."

"We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind."

"We sit and talk,quietly, with long lapses of silenceand I am aware of the streamthat has no language, coursingbeneath the quiet heaven ofyour eyeswhich has no speech"

"Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me."

"It's only words... unless they're true."

"No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language."

"The menu is not the meal."

"silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation."

"I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand."

"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."

"The books brought brilliance to my life, and they brought an understanding: Life is a story. Everything that has happened and will happen to me is all part of the story of this enchanted place - all the dreams and visions and understandings that come to me in my dungeon cell. The books helped me see the truth is not in the touch of the stone but in what the stone tells you."

"Language is a finding-place not a hiding place."

"In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language."

"I tried to think the same thought in as many different religions as possible, so the thought itself wouldn't be limited by any particular way of reasoning, the way words restrict -- the whole eskimo-seventeen-words-for-snow idea."

"A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably."

"I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language."

"The word very will vary in muchiness. I love you very much, and that won’t vary from day to day."

"I think I’m mouth blind and that’s why all food tastes bland. The only things that have any flavor are the words I love you."

"لا توجد أي دولة في العالم انطلقت في المجال التكنولوجي دون الاعتماد على اللغة الأم."