"Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite process."
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"Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it."
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"Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted?If it were not for language, could we lie?"
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"Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an unhousedness of place."
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"we must be precise with love, its language and its gestures. If it is to save us, we must look at it as clearly as we should learn to look at death"
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"The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet"
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"I love communicating with people, and sometimes language is not enough. I think that's what poetry is, where you can mess with language and get through to things that can't be described or communicated through regular language or scientific processes."
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"Sometimes language is not enough."
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"It is clear that whatever language of democracy Obama and his administration use is very tactically deployed, and has as its main aim the extension of US power and interests."
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"Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed."
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"He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed."
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"Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity."
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"The language of the poem is the language of particulars."
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"I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is."
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"I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English."
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"The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings."
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"A silly remark can be made in Latin as well as in Spanish."
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"I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language."
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"[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it."
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"Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit."
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