Carl Sandburg Quotes

I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.

Grammar is the analysis of language.

Grammar is the grave of letters.

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.

Good is a noun rather than an adjective.

A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words.... Statements are made, words or sentences are used.

Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable.

A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance

There are a lot of other things besides nouns.

Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.

It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?

Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.

The way that words fit together is always interesting to me. I love words.

I know what the structure of the language is.

I had been learning Italian for years. I always loved Latin, but Italian is a living language; I'm writing in it now as well as reading it. It is so interesting delving further into language.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

I'm studying Finnish, and it's one of the five most difficult languages in the world. And the more I learn, the more I realize that's definitely true.

I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.

When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.