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"The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language."
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"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."
"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."
"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."
"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."
"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."
Explore more quotes by John C. Hawkes
"When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship."
"I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing."
"My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano."
"I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English."
"I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then."
"Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year."
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