“The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.” StillsStatesLanguageAbilityStepsProgressConstitutionRacistAlabama Author:Artur Davis
“I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.” BelieveLanguageI BelieveLimitsTraditionPoetry IsFormal Book:The Weather of Words: Poetic Invention Source: The Weather of Words: Poetic Invention
“So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.” FeelsStatesFilmLanguageDecidedEnormousHumiliationLack Of Love Author:Godfrey Reggio
“It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.” LooksLanguageThirdsLook UpFearful Author:Kevin Kline
“Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.” WayHappensCoursesLanguageWishQualitySeriousOneself Author:Robert Fitzgerald
“Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.” LanguageDestinySpeechPoetry IsPoeticNewness Author:Gaston Bachelard
“Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.” StillsLanguageDefinitionsGreekUnconsciousGrammarDictionary Author:Gilbert Murray
“It was real Cheyenne. I would get the translations the night before, but it was very difficult because it was not like any other language you would be familiar with.” RealWould BeNightLanguageDifficultFamiliarTranslationsCheyenne Author:Joe Lando