#Language

"The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes."

"Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable."

"Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us."

"Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but there's always a doubt, and the possible meanings are many."

"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."

"Know what you are talking about."

"Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity."

"Poetry: the best words in the best order."

"The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary."

"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"

"Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts."

"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all."

"Painting is by nature a luminous language."

"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."

"He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish."

"Coin a new word and hear it jingle in your pocket with all your other change. My love for you is sofacouchsitsitting, so you’d better buckle up."

"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."

"You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect."

"The word long is short, and so is the word short, but why is the word love as long as long? Shouldn’t it be longer?"

"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."