#language

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

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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

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

— Robert Morgan

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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

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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. ↗

— Toni Morrison

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I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

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Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think. ↗

— Holly Near

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Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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Language cares. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#language

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! ↗

— Manuel Puig

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