Language

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?
Hugo Ball
Paradise
Language
Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
James A. Baldwin
Truth
Control
Language
Universe
We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the language of the treaty itself - of SOFA - and of the interim and further arrangements that have been made since 1995, and see whether or not we need to make any changes. Those are decisions I cannot make.
Howard Baker
Government
Decisions
Language
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
Gaston Bachelard
Poetry
Future
Language
Speech
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Gaston Bachelard
Beauty
Language
The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.
Roger Babson
Language
Nothing
Saying
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
J. L. Austin
Language
Word
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W. H. Auden
Love
Language
War is what happens when language fails.
Margaret Atwood
War
Language
The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!
John Astin
English
Language
Will
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
Antonin Artaud
Language
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.
Rudolf Arnheim
Art
Language
Talk
Theory
The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.
Francis Arinze
Change
Faith
Language
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Edward Appleton
Language
Mind
Opera
From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.
David Antin
Gods
Entertainment
Language
May