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“I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.”

Moments Speak Language Tongue

Book:Old snow just melting: essays and interviews

Source: Old snow just melting: essays and interviews

“The moment you enter into the world of words you start falling away from that which is. The more you enter into language, the farther you are away from existence.”

World Inspirational Moments Fall Language Existence

Author:Rajneesh

“Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and staff, my resting place and shield, and not mine only, for art leaves nobody out. Even those from whom art has been stolen away by tyranny, by poverty, begin to make it again. If the arts did not exist, at every moment, someone would begin to create them, in song, out of dust and mud, and although the artifacts might be destroyed, the energy that creates them is not destroyed.”

Ifs World Has Beens Art Moments Might Song Energy Language Poverty Mines Art Is Raises Tyranny Naked Destroyed Rhythm Dust Staff Strokes Brushes Mud Stolen Shields Artifacts Brush Strokes

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“The English language may hold a more disagreeable combination of words than "The doctor will see you now." I am willing to concede something to the phrase "Have you anything to say before the current is turned on?" That may be worse for the moment, but it doesn't last so long. For continued, unmitigating depression, I know nothing to equal "The doctor will see you now." But I'm not narrow-minded about it. I'm willing to consider other possibilities.”

Knows May Long Moments Lasts Language Possibility Willing Equal Doctors Currents Combination Phrases English Language Disagreeable Narrow-minded

Book:Love Conquers All

Source: Love Conquers All

“Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of ‘68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath.”

Way Kind Moments Language Levels Revolution Warm Posts That Moment Libertarianism Theoretical Aftermath Hangover Uprising Euphoric Structuralism

Author:Terry Eagleton

“I am somewhat uncertain whether there is a definite factual question as to whether natural language handles truth-value gaps. Nor am I even quite sure that there is a definite question of fact as to whether natural language should be evaluated by the minimal fixed point or another, given the choice of a scheme for handling gaps. We are not at the moment searching for the correct scheme.”

Should Moments Facts Values Choices Language Given Natural Handle Fixed Gaps Schemes Uncertain Definite Factual

Author:Saul Kripke

“At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.”

Mind Moments Language

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one age and boasts of the next. Dante is worshipped at that grave to which he was hurried by persecution. Milton, in his own day, was "Mr. Milton, the blind adder, that spit his venom on the king's person"; and soon after, "the mighty orb of song." These absurd transitions from hatred to apotheosis, this recognition just at the moment when it becomes a mockery, saddens all intellectual history.”

Source: Literature and life, lects

“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

“My own view is that one cannot be religious in general any more than one can speak language in general; at any given moment one speaks French or English or Swahili or Japanese, but not 'language.”

Moments Speak Language Given Religious My Own Views Speaks French

Author:Susan Sontag

“The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.”

Writing Mind Moments Reality Seems Moving Language Dull Layers Belts Flux Asteroids Constantly Moving

Author:Aaron Belz

“Day and night, and every moment, there are voices about us. All the hours speak as they pass; and in every event there is a message to us; and all our circumstances talk with us; but it is in Divine language, that worldliness misunderstands, that selfishness is frightened at, and that only the children of God hear rightly and happily.”

Children Moments God Night Speak Language Voice Hours Events Divine Circumstances Messages Selfishness Frightened Day And Night Child Of God Worldliness

Book:Euthanasy: Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

Source: Euthanasy: Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life