"Metaphor is embodied in language."

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"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

"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

Language, Emotion, Truth, Perception

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

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Language, Truth, Future, Wisdom, Power

"The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries."

Mark Twain, American Author

Language, Dream, Vocabulary, Meaning

"In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that language can be a lie. It is the most basic building brick of everything."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Language, Truth, Reality, Dream

"I liked, as I like still, to make words look self-conscious and foolish, to bind them by mock marriage of a pun, to turn them inside out, to come upon them unawares. What is this jest in majesty? This ass in passion? How do god and devil combine to form a live dog?"

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Language, Humor, Creativity, Irony

"She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else."

Jonathan Safran Foer, American Novelist

Language, Expression, Culture, Identity

"A dog is der Hund the dog; a women is die Frau the wom[an]; a horse is das Pferd, the horse; now you put that dog in the Genitive case, & is he the same dog he was before? No sir; he is das Hundes; put him in the Dative case & what is he? Why, he is dem Hund. Now you snatch him into the accusative case & how is it with him? Why he is den Hunden? ... Read moreBut suppose he happens to be twins & you have to pluralize him, what then? Why sir they'll swap that twin dog around thro' the four cases till he'll think he's an entire International Dog Show all in his own person. I don't like dogs, but I wouldn't treat a dog like that. I wouldn't even treat a borrowed dog that way."

Mark Twain, American Author

Language, Grammar, Dogs

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"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."

"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 dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries."

"In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that language can be a lie. It is the most basic building brick of everything."

"I liked, as I like still, to make words look self-conscious and foolish, to bind them by mock marriage of a pun, to turn them inside out, to come upon them unawares. What is this jest in majesty? This ass in passion? How do god and devil combine to form a live dog?"

"She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else."

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"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."

"Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe."

"I think childhood is to everyone a lost land."

"A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast."

"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous."

"Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative."

"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."

"Television's Mr. Filth: that's me."

"I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it."

"Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word."