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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.

Lafcadio Hearn

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Monument

It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

William Hazlitt

Language

The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.

John C. Hawkes

Language

Magnificence

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

David Hare

Language

Stupidity

Smiles are the language of love.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.