Shinji Kagawa Quotes

I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.

Language cares.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.

Words are the tools of 'to be' - of expression. They are completely built on the fact that you 'are,' and in order to express it, you have built a little alphabet, and you make your words from it.

My mother introduced to me as a child the world of language: the way in which translation can be a system by which you can understand others.

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

If you can talk, you can write.

The only thing you have to know are your words.

No matter where we live, we have to use words. Once you've been looking into words, their stories, it's easy to fall in love with them.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Symbols are important.

Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of what we wear and what we eat and all the things that mark us, and in the end, what we have are our words.

It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.

Art is such an important part of our culture.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Language is a nice way to remember things.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.