To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.
The truth is, we don't have an easy language for emotional life. That's why we have writers.
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.
I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
Wherever I go throughout the world - no matter the language, no matter the culture - I thrill to hear the testimonies of the Saints.
Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an unhousedness of place.
He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.(Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot)
If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less alien as it continues to live.
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.
Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.
Wisdom of the Ages: "Hillary" Has replaced the term "battle-axe" to describe an undesirable mother-in-law in 37 languages.
Being a poet one confronts the limitation of language, how can the spirit be revealed under any restrictions.
When somebody speaks a language that we don’t know, we often imagine that some important things are being said!
I belong to a stupid nation that kill and murder their own people for language and religion, then they call it foreigners interference.
'Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.
Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.
Actors always start with the voice and language. That's wrong. They should start with the body. The body is an actor's most important resource.
