The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.
Marilyn Hacker

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.
Marilyn Hacker

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.
Marilyn Hacker

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
Marilyn Hacker

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
Ivan Turgenev

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.
Don DeLillo

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.
Don DeLillo

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.
Don DeLillo

The language of my books has shaped me as a man.
Don DeLillo

I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.
Yakov Smirnoff

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
Yakov Smirnoff

Music is a language, you see, a universal language.
Sun Ra

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
J. L. Austin

A different language is a different vision of life.
Federico Fellini

Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.
Patti Smith

Language changes very fast.
John M. Smith

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
Jacques Lacan

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.
Tina Weymouth

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
Jeremy Taylor

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.
Alan Moore