Language Quotes

"Words never fade. What changes is the meaning used to give them." "Books and harlots have their own glow" "Translation is a form of transformation" "The storyteller's task is to name what is lost" "All our words from loose using have lost their edge " "Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language" "All generalizations are false, including this one" "Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself" "Whose voice was more like perfume to me than any sound designed to induce crushed wings and secret obedience"