Classical Language Quotes

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.

Without the study of Samskrit one cannot become a true Indian and a true learned man.

Samskrit has moulded the minds of our people to the extent to which they themselves are not conscious. Samskrit literature is national in one sense, but its purpose has been universal. That was why it commanded the attention of people who were not followers of a particular culture.

No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.

So a lot of what you see in the Baroque Cycle is me wanting to be one of those guys. In the case of Anathem, I needed something that was more formal, less flashy, as if it had been translated from the classical language of another planet, but enlivened with slang terms that a teenage narrator would enjoy throwing around.

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

Samskrit language, as has been universally recognized by those competent to form a judgment, is one of the most magnificent, the most perfect, the most prominent and wonderfully sufficient literary instrument developed by the human mind.

I actually only speak English and Latin. Medieval philosophy was my major, so we pretty much had to study in Latin.

My father made me take three years of Latin in high school.

Latin is an international language.

Hebrew was frozen, like frozen peas, fresh out of the Bible.

Sanskrit language and the subjects in Sanskrit are both vital alike.

I like the word monument, because the word monument is a Latin word.

If, in the schools, the classical language would no longer be taught, whom could we entrust with the writing of memorials, documents, letters and notes in the public service? How could we possibly assign important offices and heavy responsibilities to someone who cannot even write fluently?