For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.

For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

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

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

Change your language and you change your thoughts.

Change your language and you change your thoughts.

To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to
my horse--German.

To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to
my horse--German.

Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it read more

Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.