Linguistic Art Quotes

The poet is a specialist in something which everyone practises. Herein, poetry differs from the other arts. Everyone does not practise music or painting or even dancing, but everyone without exception puts together words poetically every day of his life.

…only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world.

Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.

Nothing feels better than constructing a beautiful sentence.

There's no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There's no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

Writing is a lonely profession.

Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence.

I like to paint pictures with words, 'cause I can't draw for anything.

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

Since 'concepts' are closely bound up with language, concept art is a kind of art of which the material is language.

Language is inherently not concerned with logic. As an expression of the psychological activities of humankind, it simply follows a linear process as it seeks actualisation. Moreover, it does not obey the objective concepts of time and space that belong to the physical world. When the discussion of time and space is imported into linguistic art from scientific aims and research methods, that linguistic art is entirely reduced to trifling pseudo-philosophical issues.

It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.