Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
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.
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.
