Erica Jong Quotes

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

It is a position not to be controverted, that the earth ... was and ever would have continued to be, the COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE.

The English language is nobody's special property.

I do not know exactly why, but it seems to me that images do not belong to anybody but are instead there, at the disposal of all.

Folk music isn't owned by anybody. It is owned by everybody, like the national parks, the postal system, and the school system. It's our common property. There is nobody's name on it. Nobody can make money on it. It's not copywritten.

The sea is certainly common to all.

the field of knolege is the common property of all mankind

God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.

At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Once the film is out and a lot of people are seeing it, it becomes almost owned by the cinemagoers of the world.

The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about fifteen languages and three dialects. I grew up speaking about seven of them.

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table.

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

The fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to none.

What belongs to everybody belongs to nobody.

The best ideas are common property.

An idea is so impersonal; it is yours today and the whole world's tomorrow.

The land on which the cattle grazed was communal property. It was owned by no one. It was nobody's private farm. It was the common property of the people, shared by the people. So the practice of sharing was central to the concept of ownership of property.

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.

European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance.

Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.