“I like you; your eyes are full of language."
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― Anne Sexton
“He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.”
― Margaret Atwood, Der blinde Mörder
“Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
“I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.”
― Jane Wagner,
“It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.”
― Anthony Doerr,
“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.”
― Roland Barthes
“Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.”
― Muriel Barbery
“For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.”
― Aldous Huxley
“Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.”
― Wilkie Collins,
“What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.”
― Jacques Derrida
“The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.”
― George Orwell
“Language is the key to the heart of people.”
― Ahmed Deedat
“Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.”
― Keith Richards
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.”
― Jean Kerr
“To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.”
― Charles Baudelaire
“Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.”
― Leigh Bardugo
“Words have power.”
― Mira Grant,
“Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.”
― Julio Cortázar