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Would have. Could have. Should have. This is the language of condemnation underscored by the passivity of regret. It’s a dead language. The thing is, you can’t un-sin. You can only repent.

Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they write sounds completely unrehearsed.

Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.

Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you – as if you haven't been told a million times already – that writing is harder. Lonelier. And nobler and more enriching.

Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.

Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.

XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language.

Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over fact and truth. Figurative language is suspicious.

You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.

You can compare it to dreams: you have a very specific and individual pictorial language that you either accept or that you can translate rashly and wrongly. Of course, you can ignore dreams, but that would be a shame, because they're useful.

You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.

You cannot rise about your words. A lot of people use foul, pornographic, filthy, language and you SEE, all of those words paint pictures and they reveal the internal thinking of the person on the inside. YOU cannot RISE (forward, onward upward) above your words.

You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language.

You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well.

You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.

You can't eat language but it eases thirst.

You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars

You can't listen to all that language and filth without it affecting you

You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion.

You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are.

You don't have to have a language in common with someone for a sexual rapport. But it helps if the language you don't understand is Italian.

You couldn't have human society without language.

You don't actually have to understand the song to be emotionally moved and uplifted, whereas with language it becomes quirky and analytical.

You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class). [Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.

Your body language shapes who you are

You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language.

You need good principles and good language if you are to succeed.

You should do whatever language you feel is the perfect language for you to sing in and then try to strive to do the best.

You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise you're merely imitating yourself, going nowhere, because that's always easiest.

You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.

You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.

You've got a new Spanish-language album out now ["90 Millas," released in September of 2007], and the single ["No Llores"] is #1 on the Billboard Latin chart.

Zoë threw up her hands in exasperation. "I hate this language. It changes too often!

You will hear people say the C-word. Except, it's a regional language: in British English, c - t has much less of an inflammatory sense than it does in North American English. You can hear someone on British TV called "a c - ting monkey" or a man being called a c - t. The particular fascination of profanity is how culturally specific it is and how it evolves.

You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your language from Swift, not from Shopsy's.

6.4321 The facts all contribute only to setting the problem, not to its solution. 6.44 It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists. 6.45 To view the world sub specie aeterni is to view it as a whole - a limited whole. Feeling the world as a limited whole - it is this that is mystical.

A Blessing on the Poets Patient earth-digger, impatient fire-maker, Hungry word-taker and roving sound-lover, Sharer and saver, muser and acher, You who are open to hide or uncover, Time-keeper and –hater, wake-sleeper, sleep-waker; May language’s language, the silence that lies Under each word, move you over and over, Turning you, wondering, back to surprise.

A boy trying out a man's language.

Abstraction is the sickness of language.

Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as absolute a demarcation as a full stop.

A candidate with no experience they would package as a citizen politician, a lifetime hack as an elder statesman.

A conglomerate of complicated words, they confuse, condemn and cajole, created, he is sure, for the sole purpose of fuddling the listener, which in this case is regrettably him.

You who speak languages, you are such liars.

Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.

A bar, as any good dictionary will tell you, is a rod of wood or iron that can be used to fasten a gate. From this came the idea of a bar as any let or hindrance that can stop you going where you want to; specifically the bar in a pub or tavern is the bar-rier behind which is stored all the lovely intoxicating liquors that only the bar-man is allowed to lay is hands on without forking out.