Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.
Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language.
Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.
The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
It was real Cheyenne. I would get the translations the night before, but it was very difficult because it was not like any other language you would be familiar with.
Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
He was not like Greek fathers. He didn't tell us to get married. My father thought it was very important that we travel, learn languages, be educated.
One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.
Katharine Clifton: You speak so many bloody languages, and you never want to talk.
David Whitaker: Aw, geez! Cathy Whitaker: We don't use language like that in this house.
My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.
All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.
Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.
I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.
Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.
