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“When a language die we don't know what we lose with language.”

“The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence, I try to write up to the poetry that I have recited beforehand.”

Writing Trying Poetry Dies Language Poet Standards Sentences

Author:Janet Fitch

“If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces.. .It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength.”

Ifs Mind Dies Language Pieces Thousand Torture Nightmare Nerves Orchestra Corpses Symbolic

Author:Asger Jorn

“There's a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear: We grow sea-green at last and coldly die In brininess and volubility.”

Lasts Joy Dies Language Grows Too Much Sea Wind Green Retreat

Author:Robert Graves

“Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.”

World May Long Together Lasts Dies Language Lines Failing Poet Bounds Tongue Envy Vain Verses Prophecy Boast

Author:Edmund Waller

“When you begin to read a poem you are entering a foreign country whose laws and language and life are a kind of translation of your own; but to accept it because its stews taste exactly like your old mother's hash, or to reject it because the owl-headed goddess of wisdom in its temple is fatter than the Statue of Liberty, is an equal mark of that want of imagination, that inaccessibility to experience, of which each of us who dies a natural death will die.”

“The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke.”

Hard Dies Language Opinion

Author:Stanley Baldwin

“The absurdist is concerned with the search for meaning in the Universe. He believes this search to be meaningless--hence the disintegration of plot, character, and language in absurdist drama. Order is a falsehood that we, God, those who came before us, have imposed on a random universe. However, the absurdist is confronted with a curious paradox: though he believes the Universe to be meaningless, he cannot abandon the search for meaning--or he will die.”

Believe Character Order Dies Universe Language Drama Concerned Curious Plot Abandon Paradox Meaningless Falsehood Search For Meaning Disintegration Those Who Came Before Us

Author:Walter Wykes

“Every time another tribe becomes extinct and their language dies, another way of life and another way of understanding the world disappears forever. Even if it has been painstakingly studied and recorded, a language without a people to speak - it means little. A language can only live if its people live, and if today's uncontacted tribes are to have a future, we must respect their right to choose their own way of life.”

People Ifs World Way Mean Littles Has Beens Today Dies Speak Language Understanding Forever Disappear Tribes Another Way Understanding The World

Author:Stephen Corry

“No religion is suddenly rejected by any people; it is rather gradually outgrown. None sees a religion die; dead religions are like dead languages and obsolete customs: the decay is long and - like the glacier march - is perceptible only to the careful watcher by comparisons extending over long periods.”

People Long Dies Language Atheism Periods Careful Positive Atheism Comparison March Customs Decay Rejected Obsolete Extending Watchers Glaciers

Book:Has Humanity Gained from Unbelief?: Two Nights Debate Between Marsden Gibson and Charles Bradlaugh at Newcastle-on-Tyne

Source: Has Humanity Gained from Unbelief?: Two Nights Debate Between Marsden Gibson and Charles Bradlaugh at Newcastle-on-Tyne

“Language changes. If it does not change, like Latin it dies. But we need to be aware that as our language changes, so does our theology change, particularly if we are trying to manipulate language for a specific purpose. That is what is happening with our attempts at inclusive language, which thus far have been inconclusive and unsuccessful.”

Ifs Needs Trying Doe Has Beens Purpose Dies Language Happenings Theology Latin Manipulate Unsuccessful

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“What are the precise characteristics of an epigram it is not easy to define. It differs from a joke, in the fact that the wit of the latter dies in the words, and cannot therefore be conveyed in another language; while an epigram is a wit of ideas, and hence, is translatable. Like aphorisms, songs and sonnets, it is occupied with some single point, small and manageable; but whilst a song conveys a sentiment, a sonnet a poetical, and an aphorism a moral reflection, an epigram expresses a contrast.”

Ideas Facts Song Dies Language Easy Moral Jokes Reflection Wit Characteristics Latter Sentiments Contrast Aphorism Precise Sonnet Epigrams Manageable

Author:William Matthews

“We all laugh and cough with the same language and will die with the same language as well!”

Wells Dies Language Laughing

Author:Javad Alizadeh

“Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.”

Dies Language Process Style Frogs

Book:Figures of Speech: 60 Ways To Turn A Phrase

Source: Figures of Speech: 60 Ways To Turn A Phrase

“When I think of anything properly describable as a beautiful idea, it is always in the form of music. I have written and printed probably 10,000,000 words in English but all the same I shall die an inarticulate man, for my best ideas beset me in a language I know only vaguely and speak only as a child.”

Thinking Knows Men Children Ideas Beautiful Form Dies Speak Language Written Printed Inarticulate

Author:H. L. Mencken

“The only love language is 'die to self.'”

Self Dies Language Only Love

Author:Christine Caine

“We are like dogs, cats, cows, rats ... What separates us from them and from the remaining matches against mammals is negligible. To have the same diseases. Rats spread plague like us, but we are just as contagious as them. And the dogs get diabetes, like we do, and get cancer, like us. And age, like us. And die, like us. Why then the biblical claim that man is the king of creation? Perhaps because only man has developed spoken language, the words, wherein lies its prodigious ability to lie.”

Men Age Lying Dies Language Ability Dog Creation Kings Disease Cat Claims Cancer Spread Cows Biblical Rats Plague Contagious Diabetes Mammals Prodigious Spoken Language

Author:Fernando Vallejo

“So while you're getting ripped apart head to toe as you fall into a black hole, you will also extrude through the fabric of space and time, like toothpaste squeezed through a tube. To all the words in the English language that describe ways to die (e.g., homicide, suicide, electrocution, suffocation, starvation) we add the term spaghettification.”

Way Science Dies Fall Language Black Term Space Suicide Add Holes Fabric Toes Time And Space English Language Starvation Tubes Ripped Black Hole Homicide Toothpaste

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“A child playing with dolls may shed heartfelt tears when his bundle of rags and scraps becomes deathly ill and dies ... So we may come to an understanding of language as playing with dolls: in language, scraps of sound are used to make dolls and replace all the things in the world.”

World May Children Used Poetry Dies Literature Language Understanding Sound Tears Ill Shed Dolls Heartfelt Scrap Rags Bundles Children Playing

Author:Velimir Khlebnikov

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