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

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.

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

Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday

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

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

Photography is a language more universal than words.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

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 doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of most poems.

Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

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.

Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present moment; poetry was the antidote to history. Poetry was language free from habit.

poetry is where the language is renewed.

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem, it kind of gets to the point.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.

Poetry takes you into the recesses of the language, the neglected corners, cracks and crannies and to the big sky of wonder. It opens the door to a critique without which you have rather boring analytical tools by comparison. To cultivate poetry means to stay with it. Not to abandon hope, but to abide.

Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in memorable language.

Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions.

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.