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.

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

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 is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

Language is memory and metaphor.

Language is memory and metaphor.

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.