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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.

Quotes by Robert Fitzgerald

That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which I had pushed a little way.

Quotes by Robert Fitzgerald

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.

Quotes by Robert Fitzgerald

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.

Quotes by Robert Fitzgerald

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...

Quotes by Robert Fitzgerald

Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us.

Quotes by Robert Fitzgerald

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.

Quotes by Robert Fripp

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

Quotes by Robert Fripp

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

Quotes by Robert Delaunay

Love can be understood only 'from the inside,' as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

Quotes by Robert C. Solomon

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

Quotes by Robert Benchley

I found that something exists between director and actor sometimes that surpasses or transcends language.

Quotes by Rob Marshall

We're systems software people ourselves. We wanted a language to make our lives better.

Quotes by Rob Pike

It's hard for me to get embarrassed, but the things that do embarrass me would be if anybody ever heard my wife and I talking in our robust, made-up language.

Quotes by Rob Delaney

Music transcends language. BTS communicates with our fans by staying true to ourselves and believing in music every day.

Quotes by RM

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.

Quotes by Roald Hoffmann

I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.

Quotes by Rob Bell

The Tamil audience has accepted me and given me a place to establish myself. I'm not taking things for granted... I've learnt the language.

Quotes by Ritika Singh

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Quotes by Rita Dove

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

Quotes by Rita Dove

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these Language quotes explore?
This set looks at the limits of ordinary language for describing science, the case for more scientific language in public discourse, feeling outmatched by the sheer size of the English language, and wanting to master the technical language of a craft like directing. If you like exploring how words shape meaning, so is our Like collection.
Is there a quote about language struggling to describe science?
Yes — one quote says, "The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language."
Is there a quote calling for more scientific language in public life?
There is. One quote argues, "More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better." For more ideas along these lines, see our More collection.
Is there a quote about the English language being hard to keep up with?
Yes — one quote admits, "Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head." Shakespeare is famous for exploring love as much as language, and you can see more of that in our Love collection.
Is there a quote about wanting to master a craft's technical language?
Yes — one quote shares, "The producing thing has come quite naturally to me. I feel like for directing, I would like to be more technically-savvy. I want to have the language under my belt." For more reflections framed in first person, see our Me collection.

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