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Language Quotes

"A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use."

"Words are all we have"

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."

"Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian."

"The storyteller's task is to name what is lost"

"Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language"

"Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock."

"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness"

"Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools."

"When ideas fail, words come in handy"

"A word is dead when it is said, some say I say it just begins to live that day "

"Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation"

"There is no language without deceit"

"The tongue is mightier than the blade"

"The original is unfaithful to the translation"

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