Paul Celan Quotes

Language is the crowning achievement of human beings, and that is something Muslims have always known and revered. We are a literate people whose miracle is a Book from an unlettered man, peace and blessings be upon him, who was the most articulate and eloquent human being who ever lived. We honor our Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, in honoring language that he loved so much and used so well.

Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.

Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.

For me, language is something that I've always loved. When I read, that's what I look for. When I write, that's what I strive for.

We must plow through the whole of language.

...language is not the frosting, it's the cake.

You can't eat language but it eases thirst.

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless.

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

Language is a social art.

All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak words. They say, "How are you" or "I'm not feeling well" all over the world. These common words - these common elements that we have between us - the writer has to take some verbs and nouns and pronouns and adjectives and adverbs and arrange them in a way that sound fresh.

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.

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

Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

A language is a map of our failures

Language is the chief means and index of a nation's progress.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with

Language is a form of organized stutter.

Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything.