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"Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us."
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"Hey, any idea why Australians speak something that sounds deceptively like English but isn't? I mean, I'm trying to figure out why I can't seem to converse with another human being who speaks the same language as I do."
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"To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery."
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"The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!"
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"Language is a mixture of statement and evocation."
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"These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages."
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"In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary."
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"I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth and that things are the sons of heaven."
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"Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies."
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"But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice."
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"If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest."
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"In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary."
Language
"Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation."
Poetry
"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."
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"I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition."
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"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
"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
"Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce."
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"Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek."
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"The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer."
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