"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." ~William Penn
"Dictum sapienti sat est - A word to a wise person is sufficient." ~Cicero Ovid Seneca

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3/27/11

Quotes on LANGUAGE and LITERATURE

"Language is an instrument for the pursuit and control of meanings." ~I. A. Richards
"A different language is a different vision of life." ~Federico Fellini

"A different language is a different vision of life." ~Oscar Wilde

"A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language." ~Gaston Bachelard

"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography." ~Oscar Wilde

"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language." ~Martin Buber

"And so is skin a language. It speaks when words fail us and communicates to parts of ourselves that are beyond the reach of words." ~Tracy Young

"Dance is the hidden language of the soul." ~Martha Graham

"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself." ~Henry Miller

“Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.” ~Robert Benchley

"Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less." ~Robert E. Lee

"Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Eyes speak all languages." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"Flowers are love's truest language." ~Park Benjamin

"For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning." ~ T.S. Elliot

“For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.” ~Herman Melville on Literature

"Geometry is the language of time.” ~Khalid Masood

"He is the greatest musician of the English language, and exploring variations of familiar material is what musicians do all day." ~Douglas Adams on PG (Pelhan Greenville) Wodehouse born in 1881

"How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.” ~Frances Hodgson Burnett

"I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand." ~Sir Edward Appleton

"I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism." ~Abigail Reynolds, Pemberley By The Sea

"If you ever doubt the power of language, listen more closely. Witness the magic the first time someone whispers "i love you." Watch a woman put on head phones, close her eyes, and have her life changed by a lyric. See a bad moment flipped upside down by a well timed joke. Words propel us, empower us, make us human and more than human. We constantly struggle to say what we mean and mean what we say. To "wrestle with words and meanings." that's what t.s. eliot calls it. But as we whisper and shout, stutter and spin, we create order out of the chaos around us. We are built of words, and we live by them, too." ~Hallmark

"It’s in literature that true life can be found. It’s under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth." ~Gao Xingjian

"Language and culture are our identities. Keeping our languages strong helps to keep us strong." ~Veronica Perrurle Dobson (Australian Geographic)

"Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides." ~Rita Mae Brown

"Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone." ~Paul Tillich

"Language is a wonderful thing. It can be used to express thoughts, to conceal thoughts, but more often, to replace thinking." ~Kelly Fordyce

"Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt." ~Charles Darwin

"Language is an instrument for the pursuit and control of meanings." ~I. A. Richards

"Laughter is the language of the survivor” ~Josh Riebock

"Listening to language, feeling stories unfold and poems arrive, being present to the page -- I do not think of it as a career, I think of it as a devotion." ~Naomi Shihab Nye

"Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down; there are still so many stories to be told." ~Colum McCann

“Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.” ~Boris Pasternak, (born in Moscow 11 February 1890)

"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life." ~Fernando Pessora

"Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path." ~Edgar Allan Poe

"Love connects hearts
Poetry connects people
In the world of literature, 
There's no east or west
We are together 
under the umbrella of Literature!"
~Thangjam Misna Chanu 

"Love is the universal language, but it’s also the language of the Universe. Speak it fluently!" ~Robert Clancy

"Love may be spoken fluently in every language, but is best articulated by a kind heart." ~Robert Clancy on Speak Love

"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, when in fact language remains the master of man." ~Martin Heidegger

"Most of conflicts and tensions are due to language. Don’t pay so much attention to the words. In love’s country, language doesn’t have its place. Love is mute." ~Shams Tabrizi

"Most works of mountain literature are written by men, and most of them focus on the goal of the summit.” ~Robert Macfarlane

"Music is the universal language par excellence and it is enough to put your mouth to your heart and everything begins to flow.  Very grateful for such a valuable gift." ~Alex Gonzalez 

"My language is understood all over the world." ~Joseph Haydn

"My language of love is kindness." ~Marinela Reka

"Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language." ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love." ~Edwin H. Chapin

"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart." ~Martin Luther King Jr.

"One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.” ~Frank Smith

"One of the great gifts of literature is that it allows us to see the world through the eyes of another, and in doing so, sometimes we end up learning a thing or two about ourselves, or about the person we would like to be. For many women, Anne inspired them to believe in themselves and know what they were capable of and what they were worth. Anne showed us how to love ourselves and to encourage others to do the same." ~Katie Bull, Sullivan Entertainment (Anne of Green Gables)

"Ordinary folk of every nationality and every language know the art of friendship." ~Francis Gay (1983)

"Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing." ~Lytton Strachey

"Poetry is essential to get a sense of how language works – how distillation pand rhythm and rhyme and colour can give the mere act of putting words together an extraordinary expressive power." ~Unattributed by George Daniel Anos

"So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays." ~N.H. Kleinbaum

"Sometimes, unspoken messages are better language of the heart." ~Unattributed

"Speak with the language of love." ~Rumi

"Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks." ~Alfred North Whitehead

"That is what literature offers — a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place." ~Jeanette Winterson

"The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving." ~Shecky Greene on Literature

"The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is un-readable and literature is not read." ~Oscar Wilde

"The language of the heart by comparison is distinctly non-verbal." ~Jonathan Cainer

“The more we engage with other languages, the more we may find that we are all human beings regardless of the different languages we speak.” ~Prof. Andy Gao, UNSW School of Education, Language educator

"There are hundreds of languages in this world and one transcends all, the language of love." ~Julie Parker

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.” ~P.G. Wodehouse

"There was a time when mankind could communicate with all animals, but we have since forgotten their language." ~A.D. Williams

"There was nothing remote or mysterious here - only something private. The only secret was the ancient communication between two people." ~Eudora Welty

"Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.”
- Gaston Bachelard

"To have another language is to possess a second soul." ~Charlemagne

“To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.” ~Ernst Fischer

"Translation from one language into another is a harmful approach because it slows down communication. The research shows that translation and grammar study do not work for most students." ~Dr. James Asher

"Trust is another big word in the language of love. For without trust, a deep love cannot exist. ~John Estrellas

'Very' is the most useless word in the English language and can always come out. More than useless, it is treacherous because it invariably weakens what it is intended to strengthen. ~Florence King

“We are people of the land and our language expresses this. Our knowledge is held in our languages and our languages express our cultures.” ~Veronica Perrurle Dobson, Alice Springs-based educator, author and Arrernte senior (Australian Geographic)

"We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves." ~David Ulin

"We will hitch our stars on this man who you say is a threat to democracy because he speaks our language, he expresses our anger and he understands our dreams." ~Manny Piñol on RRD

“We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.” ~F. Sionil Jose

"When nothing is left to say, it doesn't mean things went wrong. Sometimes, unspoken messages are better language of the heart." ~Unattributed

"Wisdom is so pure, that even language corrupts it." ~The Mind Unleashed


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RELATED QUOTES

"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language." ~Martin Buber

“For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter
Of the Eternal's language;--
on earth it is called Forgiveness!”
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world." ~Heinrich Heine 

"The illiterate of the 21st century, will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." ~Alvin Toffler

 "The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist." ~Eric Hoffer


"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." ~George Bernard Shaw

"True communication isn't possible. Humans have their own perceptions of reality where they feel they connect with others. It's only the lack of real communication that prevents those personal realities from turning to utter loneliness and despair brought about by the understanding that none of us can ever truly know another." ~Jim

"What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his occasion, and who would be distracted by the event and the crowd which inspire the orator, speaks to the intellect and heart of mankind, to all in any age who can understand him." ~Henry David Thoreau

“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else … Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.” ~Hermann Hesse


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OTHERS

"Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you." ~Anon

"Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding" ~German Proverb

"They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription." ~Samuel Butler

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