J. R. R. Tolkien
Novelist, Scholar
"My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: 'Back Esperanto loyally.'"
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Esperanto
10 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Richard Bach
Author
"Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book."
J. R. R. Tolkien
Novelist, Scholar
"It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to which they belong; but a living language depends equally on the 'legends' which it conveys by tradition. ... Volapuk, Esperanto, Ido, Novial, &c &c are dead, far deader than ancient unused languages, because their authors never invented any Esperanto legends."
Joe Hill
Labor Activist, Songwriter
"The language of sin was universal, the original Esperanto."
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