All language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.

All language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

And who in time knows whither we may vent
The treasure of our tongue? To what strange shores
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And who in time knows whither we may vent
The treasure of our tongue? To what strange shores
This gain of our best glory shall be sent,
T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?
What worlds in th' yet unformed Occident
May come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?

Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.

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.

I speak two languages, Body and English.

I speak two languages, Body and English.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

Language is memory and metaphor.

Language is memory and metaphor.