A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
I named my software 'EMAIL,' (a term never used before in the English language), and I even received the first U.S. Copyright for that software, officially recognizing me as The Inventor of Email, at a time when Copyright was the only way to recognize software inventions, since the U.S. Supreme Court was not recognizing software patents.
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
I so want to be able to speak another language. I love the way my friends who are half Italian and half English break from one language into another without even pausing.
Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus.
I like watching films that have very impelling content, great persuasive language.
Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.
In many parts, I start from the outside and then it triggers things within. For 'The Piano,' I went, 'I'm going to learn these piano pieces. I'm going to learn this sign language, and I'm going to do them all day every day, five days a week.' It was a totally physical thing.
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.
If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.
The idea of somebody suffering is really painful to every human. In our collective language, we all too often see those who are suffering as a victim to be pitied, to be feared, and even sometimes to be despised. I want to redirect that narrative.
When you see the poet laureate saying that every child should have read 'Ulysses' and that you're just giving up on children if you think it's elitist - does that include children with special needs or whose first language isn't English?
The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.
Ezra Pound was a crackpot on social and political issues, but he knew what he was talking about in matters of the written language.
All language is a popularity contest.
People talk about the age and positioning of a brand, but hell, it's not about that. The global language is digital, and we need to speak the language.
My interest is in how meaning is communicated via language, and I believe the shape, positioning, even the color of the language has an effect on meaning.
