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Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.


Paul Tillich


#being #being alone #created #express #glory

I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.


J. R. R. Tolkien


#i #i wish #know #languages #life

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.


Edward Tufte


#cognitive #culture #gender #here #idea

Tears are the silent language of grief.


Voltaire


#grief #language #silent #tears

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!


Ivan Turgenev


#comfort #country #days #doubt #dreary

It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.


A. E. van Vogt


#difficult #english #english language #feel #i

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.


Diane Wakoski


#british #definitely #distinguish #english #english language

When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.


Andrzej Wajda


#also #created #film #language #only

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.


Diane Wakoski


#language #love #sometimes #spoken #today

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.


Diane Wakoski


#attitudes #away #beauty #because #certain






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