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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.

over and over again I am struck by the wordiness of modern poetry, as if language had replaced experience and must be more and more extreme, intricate and in a way divorced from life itself. It seems as if what we all need is a great purification - but how will that come about?

Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.

Ownership of thought depends on the thinker not subordinating himself to a 'ruling thought'. This is particularly difficult, argues Stirner, ... for language itself is a network of 'fixed ideas'. Truths emerge only when language is reworked and possessed individually.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.

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.

Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.

Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.

People are often shy to acknowledge that they are Bengalis. They somehow take pride in saying that they cannot speak or read the language.

People are tempted to politicize the fact that I paint black figures, and the complexity of this is an essential part of the work. But my starting point is always the language of painting itself and how that relates to the subject matter.

People can stand around and share movement with each other, whether it's professional or not. That's how it grows. That's what dance does. It's its own language.

People who speak the same language can hate one another as easily as can people who speak unrelated languages.

Photography has escalated almost exponentially! It is a language which covers almost every aspect of communication; factual and expressive.

Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.

[Phil Wood] was a great artist, and he knew things. He could be mildly conversant in several languages.

Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.

Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know.

people who understand grammar always have a keen sense of the ridiculous.

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.

Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday

Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.

Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians. One wonders sometimes if science will not grind to a stop in an assemblage of walled-in hermits, each mumbling to himself words in a private language that only he can understand.

Plainly, children learn their language. I don't speak Swahili. And it cannot be that my language is 'an innate property of our brain.' Otherwise I would have been genetically programmed to speak (some variety of) English.

Playing characters that speak a very violent language was my livelihood.

Poems are a dance of language that comes out when my body taps into the rhythm of language. Rhythm gets us naked and exposes our selves completely.

Pleasure and guilt are synonymous terms in the language of the monks, and they discovered, by experience, that rigid fasts, and abstemious diet, are the most effectual preservatives against the impure desires of the flesh.

Plurality of languages: [...] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but also in grammar, and so in mode of thought and 2. that all languages are learnable.

Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our awareness and into language itself the unobvious and the unexpected.

Poetic language is singularly appropriate for recounting the life of the king who is traditionally accepted as the author of the poetic psalms, some of which are included in the narrative.

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.

Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

Poetry is always in transformation. There are certain aspects of contemporary Italian poetry that are very preoccupied with politics and deconstruction and they don't deeply interest me. But that's the case in most cultures. We have our own Language Poetry, which doesn't interest me either.

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.

Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

Poetry is language in orbit.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with the language, stirring it up. And prose is not doing that. Primarily it's not attempting to do that.

Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page.

Poetry is the memory of language

Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.

Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.