#lang

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#foreign language #language #life #life is a #men

We are all members of a single humanity, inside our hearts we all speak the same language, we all love our children and our parents, we all live in the same world. ↗

— Marc Forne Molne

#hearts #humanity #inside #language #live

I've had a fair amount of experience with snakes, and I find them to be pretty honest in terms of how you read their body language and emotions. They'll tell you when they're grumpy. They'll tell you when they're okay. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#body #body language #emotions #experience #fair

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#considered #cut #decisive #language #observed

Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English. ↗

— Michael Moore

#did #english #even #first #handful

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#become #best #fiction #invisible #itself

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#books #critic #describe #had #home

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#discovering #elementary #experience #far #go

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#attention #calls #definition #form #language

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#dead #dead end #end #itself #kind