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“we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.”

Needs Moments Facts Culture Speak Language Hurt Loss Trouble Gains Species Poetry Is Celebration Endangered Species

Author:Erica Jong

“To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.”

Long Matter Age Certain Language Loss Regret Bears Lovers Finals Witness Intricate

Author:Mary Ellen Chase

“It [horror genre] never dies. It just keeps getting reinvented and it always will. Horror is a universal language; we're all afraid. We're born afraid, we're all afraid of things: death, disfigurement, loss of a loved one. Everything that I'm afraid of, you're afraid of and vice versa. So everybody feels fear and suspense.”

Feels Dies Language Born Loss Horror Universal Vices Suspense Genre Loved Ones Vice Versa Horror Genre Universal Language Loss Of A Loved One Disfigurement

Author:John Carpenter

“Obama also allowed Hillary supporters to insert an absurd statement into the platform suggesting that media sexism spurred her loss and that “demeaning portrayals of women ... dampen the dreams of our daughters.” ... It would have been better to put this language in the platform: “A woman who wildly mismanages and bankrupts a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar campaign operation, and then blames sexism in society, will dampen the dreams of our daughters.””

“There's a tremendous amount of language loss. Most of the attention is given to indigenous languages, which makes sense, but some of the most dramatic language loss is in Europe.”

Language Given Loss Attention Amount Europe Make Sense Dramatic Indigenous

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.”

Language Loss Gone Saddest

Author:Mark Slouka

“Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.”

Language Loss One Thing Secure Spite

Book:Collected Prose

Source: Collected Prose

“Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?”

Different Speak Language Loss Dialect

Book:Handle with Care: A Novel

Source: Handle with Care: A Novel

“Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all the same. Physically, emotionally, and mentally, we are all equal. We all share basic needs for food, shelter, safety, and love. We all aspire to happiness and we all shun suffering. Each of us has hopes, worries, fears, and dreams. Each of us wants the best for our family and loved ones. We all experience pain when we suffer loss and joy when we achieve what we seek. On this fundamental level, religion, ethnicity, culture, and language make no difference.”

“The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates, stems from the basic nature of a production system that shuns reality. The commodity form reduces everything to quantitative equivalence. The quantitative is what it develops, and it can develop only within the quantitative.”

Reality Form Language Loss Levels Quality Objects Behavior Productions Stem Commodity Evident Spectacular Glorify

Author:Guy Debord

“Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.”

Use Feelings Language Loss Quality Aliens Sickness Evident Invasion

Book:The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves

Source: The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves