Best 8 quotes in «power of language quotes» category

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

If you want to conquer civilizations, restructure their languages. Long time ago, even god used this strategy to rule over mankind.

You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.

God is gracious beyond the power of language to describe.

I dream of a garden overripe and wild. Of a woman gathering the sea into her hands and letting it fall in many colored petals to a green, green earth. I dream of words on a page transforming to birds, and birds transforming to children, and children transforming to stars.

It is often said that what sets Shakespeare apart is his ability to illuminate the workings of the soul and so on, and he does that superbly, goodness knows, but what really characterizes his work - every bit of it, in poems and plays and even dedications, throughout every portion of his career - is a positive and palpable appreciation of the transfixing power of language. A Midsummer Night's Dream remains an enchanting work after four hundred years, but few could argue that it cuts to the very heart of human behaviour. What it does is take, and give, a positive satisfaction in the joyous possibilities of verbal expression.

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.