The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
The human hand allows the mind to reveal itself.
I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.
I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.
For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Suppose we think while we talk or write--I mean, as we normally do--we shall not in general say that we think quicker than we talk, but the thought seems not to be separate from the expression.
There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.
Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.
Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.
Damn words; they're just the pots and pans of life, the pails and scrubbing-brushes. I wish I didn't have to think in words.
A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.
The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world.
Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.
