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«If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one»
«He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.»
Author: Jack Kroll
| About:
Art,
Language,
Nature
| Keywords:
boundaries, inexplicable, leaps, nervous, startle, startled, systems, transmits
«Conduct is more convincing than language»
«If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power.»
«Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.»
Author: Martha Graham
(Choreographer, Dancer, Teacher)
| About:
Ballet,
Body,
Dancing,
Language,
Soul
| Keywords:
body language
«Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.»
«If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers.»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Author, Philanthropist, Writer)
| About:
Communication,
Language,
Reading
| Keywords:
admitted, stress, their own language
«If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.»
Author: Confucius
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
arbitrariness, astray, confusion, deteriorate, deteriorated, deteriorates, deteriorating, helpless, hence, morals, undone
«I've always loved the flirtatious tango of consonants and vowels, the sturdy dependability of nouns and capricious whimsy of verbs, the strutting pageantry of the adjective and the flitting evanescence of the adverb, all kept safe and orderly by those reliable little policemen, punctuation marks. Wow! Think I got my ass kicked in high school?»
«Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Art,
Language
| Keywords:
modernist, modernists
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