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Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

Quote by Carol Shields about word, language, use, human imperfections, life

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about problems, magic, language, age, olderness, word

Language, through its signs, that are words and the sounds that make them are different depending on the way a certain phenomenon is perceived, on its role et on how much importance he is given.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about language, astrology, word

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

Quote by Paul Engle about poetry, emotions, prison, language, word, power

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

Quote by Eugene Victor Debs about revolution, word

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

Quote by John Millington Synge about language, word, music, contentment

Thought having an abstract character, word – as an instrument of speech, was given to us as a gift with the common sense of measure; consequently – according to the physiology of the feeling language is nothing else but the unmoderate sense of...

Quote by Dumitru Găleşanu about love