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Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Language is fossil Poetry.”

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American essayist, poet, and philosopher. Born on May 25, 1803, and died on April 27, 1882. Known for his transcendentalist philosophy, his works have had a profound impact on literature and the intellectual world. more

“English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English would eventually become, as it did, the lingua franca of this planet, for it is thereby the richest and most flexible -- despite its barbaric accretions . . . or, I should say, because of its barbaric accretions. English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it.”

Way Should Humans Made Language Planets Tongue Despite Made It Inevitable Vocabulary Flexible Barbaric

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.”

Humans Art Self Artist Process Audience Creative Modern Emotional Art Is Terror Pity Abstract Intercourse Masturbation Seducing Creative Art Unemotional

Book:Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.”

Age Lasts Materials Magazines Primitive Youngsters Pulp

Book:I, Asimov: A Memoir

Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir

“I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl out. Through my efforts to attract the opposite sex, I found that not only did cooking work, but that it was actually fun.”

Ifs Girl Found Fun Sex Effort Opposites Asking Cooking Cooks Odds

Author:Alton Brown

“We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.”

Enough Turns Lists Clever Laundry

Book:Foucault's Pendulum

Source: Foucault's Pendulum

“I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often.”

Persons Book Sometimes Hard Age Found Imagine Conditions Mines Cat Like Me

Author:Julio Cortazar

“The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects.”

Book Quality Effects Reader Drug Satisfied Pipe Opium Lethargic

Author:Julio Cortazar

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