Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.)
I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.
Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.
It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.
When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.
Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
I grew up in a house where language was appreciated and cared about. I'm sure that, although I wasn't aware of it at the time, it must have made an impression on me.
We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.
Stu Price: You are a fucking moron! Alan Garner: Your language is offensive. Stu Price: Fuck you!
Ucok: You apologize! In their language, in our land! Where is your honor?
You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.
Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.
There's something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion - I know the innate response. But to really study it like a science would be fun.
Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.
I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
I've been thinking about going back to university. I need more tools to continue to apply to the music. I've got to open myself up to more language.
Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.
I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.
