"Language is the light of the mind"
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"I think of myself primarily as a reader, then also a writer, but that's more or less irrelevant. I think I'm a good reader, I'm a good reader in many languages, especially in English, since poetry came to me through the English language, initially through my father's love of Swinburn, of Tennyson, and also of Keats, Shelley and so on - not through my native tongue, not through Spanish. It came to me as a kind of spell. I didn't understand it, but I felt it."
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"The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other."
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"Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark."
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"As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language."
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"The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing."
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"Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's."
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"On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other."
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"To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique."
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"And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life."
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"For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language."
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"Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life."
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"If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world."
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"All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works to the disadvantage of all of us - and I mean all of us."
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"Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well."
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"Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved."
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"Music is the most spiritual language for the human being."
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"I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine."
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"Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas."
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"If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot be accomplished."
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