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One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.
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Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.
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Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
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Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
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Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
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People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.
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People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
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People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
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Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.
Politics and the English Language (1945) -
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
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Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
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Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.
On the influence of Jack Kerouac, as quoted in Jack Kerouac (2007)
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