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When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy read more
When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
Language is memory and metaphor.
Language is memory and metaphor.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
He has strangled
His language in his tears.
He has strangled
His language in his tears.
There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very
gesture.
There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very
gesture.
I am the King of Rome, and above grammar.
[Lat., Ego sum rex Romanus, et supra grammaticam.]
I am the King of Rome, and above grammar.
[Lat., Ego sum rex Romanus, et supra grammaticam.]