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For me, music was always a second language. I didn't have a musical background, and I started studying very late, at fourteen.
I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.
Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
To be honest, I couldn't hold a conversation with anybody in any language other than English - and that's a struggle sometimes!
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.
The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language.
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions.
You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion.
I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.
The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.
I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.
Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land.
The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time.
It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.
The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.
A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print
Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.
Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.
I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.
Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.
Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.
My interest in language is steadfast, but I think each project and its accompanying intentions dictate how language must be used.
The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on.
I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.
I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me.
It is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially educated people.
It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.
That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it.
You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.
It is not the responsibility of the language to force good looking code, but the language should make good looking code possible.
We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute.
For me, language is something that I've always loved. When I read, that's what I look for. When I write, that's what I strive for.
It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.
I've always been so intrigued by French language and how it completely changes you, because of cultural context, because of humor.
If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.
Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.
The problems of inventing a new language are staggering. But what else can one do if one needs to express one's feeling precisely?
Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.
Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.
English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.
The English language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready to pounce.