Language Quotes
A truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is one-sided
Sunday, January 31st, 2010How can love’s spaciousness be conveyed in the narrow confines of syllable?
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Language is fossil poetry
Sunday, March 29th, 2009
The poets made all the words, and therefore language is the archives of history, and, if we must say it, a sort of tomb of the muses. For though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist…