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A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.

A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music.

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.

[Albert Camus] really did know Algeria. He was an exile from his country, but still living in its language. Solitaire et solidaire. It's not like those who are exiled to a country where the language is not theirs.

A language, like a species, when extinct, never... reappears.

A language is a map of our failures

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.

All biblical exegetes and theologians have a theory of language, whether they acknowledge it or not.

All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist.

[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fitted only to the most exalted geniuses.

All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in ours Gauls, the third.

All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory.

All language is but a poor translation.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

All mathematics is is a language that is well tuned, finely honed, to describe patterns; be it patterns in a star, which has five points that are regularly arranged, be it patterns in numbers like 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 that follow very regular progression.

All language is a popularity contest.

All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.

All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country.

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.

All propositions are of equal value.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.

All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.

All these years there had been a Tupperware container of bad language in her head, and now she opened it and all those crisp, crunchy words were fresh and lovely, ready to be used.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

Although mathematical notation undoubtedly possesses parsing rules, they are rather loose, sometimes contradictory, and seldom clearly stated. [...] The proliferation of programming languages shows no more uniformity than mathematics. Nevertheless, programming languages do bring a different perspective. [...] Because of their application to a broad range of topics, their strict grammar, and their strict interpretation, programming languages can provide new insights into mathematical notation.

Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.

A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.

A man is known by the books he reads.

A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.

America is our continent. You feel in the daily language that Americans use the word "America" to erase the rest of the continent from the map. And, of course, the language is clearly a reflection of the geopolitical reality: the domination of the United States over the rest of the continent.

Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions.

Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

And at the end of the day, there was an attempt to suppress a book. The book wasn't suppressed. It's freely available in whatever it is, close to 50 languages. There was an attempt to suppress the writer. And I'm happy to say the writer wasn't suppressed.

A national language is a band of national union.

An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.

And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to us from C++.