Language Quotes

We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

An author accepting language’s invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively–even if with much dread

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.

Silence is never-ending speech. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.

Usage is the best language teacher.

Language can also be play and music and beauty and desire and grief and rage and truth without always having to be message-driven or purely functional.

Gujaratis are really cute people, and I find Gujarati to be a very sweet language.