top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too."
Standard
Customized
More
"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters."
Author Name
Personal Development
"No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Well, maybe so, although I don't think I am particularly gifted in languages. In fact, oddly enough, it may have something to do with my being slow at languages."
Being
"Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible."
Encouragement
"Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect."
Direction
"The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it."
Imagination
"There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know."
Poems
"Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too."
Language
"Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us."
Language
"The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise."
Heart
"One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer."
Reading
"Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear."
Language
bottom of page