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.
I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language.
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.
Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.
Every place in the world where there are two peoples - two religions, two languages - there is friction and conflict.
Kindness is the language we all can speak, even the deaf can hear it and the blind can see it...
I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.
Americans don't care what your language is, your race is, whatever. Everyone is there to do their own thing and be successful. I wish people in Britain would be more positive.
I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.
Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.
It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.
Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
Then, as now, I believe that the English use language to hide what they mean.
I believe that a large part of the training in the regional theaters is in imitation of the British style of acting. The British orientation is textual; they start from the language and work toward the character.
Will you share that path with me always?” “Nothing would please me more.
Freedom to be oneself is all very well; the greater freedom is not to be oneself.
