"Every language has its own word for the sun, but the sun us always the same."

Language, Sun, Word, Meaning

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"For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts."

Patrick Rothfuss, Australian Athlete

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"Great is language . . . . it is the mightiest of the sciences,It is the fulness and color and form and diversity of the earth . . . . and of men and women . . . . and of all qualities and processes;It is greater than wealth . . . . it is greater than buildings or ships or religions or paintings or music."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Language, Art, Expression, Humanity

"Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Language, Poetry, History, Expression

"Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing."

Bernard Kelvin Clive, Ghanaian Author

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"Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Language, Identity, Tradition, Speech

"I want to hear you wound my lovely language with your rough barbarian tongue."

Patrick Rothfuss, Australian Athlete

Language, Love, Expression, Passion

"English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"There has to be new words to explain new worlds."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles."

Henry Sweet, American Writer

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"For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice."

"Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts."

"Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin."

"Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing."

"Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns."

"I want to hear you wound my lovely language with your rough barbarian tongue."

"English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing."

"There has to be new words to explain new worlds."

"The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles."

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"A broken mirror is good luck if you want it to be."

"Happiness is what matters, feeling alive-not art or knowledge or money."

"Beware of puny two-legged creatures claiming to be made in the image of God."

"My wants are so simple I don't even know what they are."

"It isn't drugs addicts have to give up. It's misery."

"An avalanche doesn't look back at the damage it causes."

"Beware of that demon called 'Changing The World'."

"Accidents are built into the road."

"Be independent, and do what you will."

"The people who enlighten us are the ones who tell us their secrets."