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Language And Literature Quotes

Literature is language charged with meaning Picture Quote #1

Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written Picture Quote #1

I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed Picture Quote #1

Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It’s a universal language; numbers belong to everyone Picture Quote #1

Our language and literature are without a doubt Britain’s greatest contribution to the cultural heritage of the world Picture Quote #1

Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted Picture Quote #1

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As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer’s ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something original that alters or deepens my understanding of both literature and life Picture Quote #1

Seldom can two such epoch-making events have occurred in successive years as happened then. In 1453 the Turks stormed Constantinople and finally destroyed the Greek Empire, driving out Greek scholars, who carried the knowledge of Greek language and literature to the western world; and in 1454 the first document known to us appeared from the printing press at Mainz Picture Quote #1

I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly Picture Quote #1

Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is ‘permanent’, more permanent even than Greek literature Picture Quote #1

The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image and logic in the minds of all men Picture Quote #1

I didn’t choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place Picture Quote #1

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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it Picture Quote #1

Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority Picture Quote #1

All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma Picture Quote #1

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech Picture Quote #1

Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language Picture Quote #1

The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading Picture Quote #1

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Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language Picture Quote #1

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated Picture Quote #1

Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination Picture Quote #1

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer Picture Quote #1

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language Picture Quote #1

To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children Picture Quote #1

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The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature Picture Quote #1

With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work of literature happens in terms of language. And this is daunting stuff to deal with Picture Quote #1

Virtue is not a chemical product... it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease to care about it, cease to cultivate it, cease to transmit its funded values, a large part of it will become meaningless, like a dead language to which we have lost the key Picture Quote #1

That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which I had pushed a little way Picture Quote #1

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Literature is language charged with meaning (Language And Literature Quotes) Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written (Language And Literature Quotes) I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed. (Language And Literature Quotes) Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It’s a universal language; numbers belong to everyone. (Language And Literature Quotes) Our language and literature are without a doubt Britain’s greatest contribution to the cultural heritage of the world. (Language And Literature Quotes) Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted. (Language And Literature Quotes) As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer’s ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something original that alters or deepens my understanding of both literature and life (Language And Literature Quotes) Seldom can two such epoch-making events have occurred in successive years as happened then. In 1453 the Turks stormed Constantinople and finally destroyed the Greek Empire, driving out Greek scholars, who carried the knowledge of Greek language and literature to the western world; and in 1454 the first document known to us appeared from the printing press at Mainz (Language And Literature Quotes) I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly (Language And Literature Quotes) Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is ‘permanent’, more permanent even than Greek literature (Language And Literature Quotes) The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image and logic in the minds of all men (Language And Literature Quotes) I didn’t choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place (Language And Literature Quotes) In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it (Language And Literature Quotes) Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority (Language And Literature Quotes) All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma (Language And Literature Quotes) Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech (Language And Literature Quotes) Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language (Language And Literature Quotes) The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading (Language And Literature Quotes) Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language (Language And Literature Quotes) Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated (Language And Literature Quotes) Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination (Language And Literature Quotes) One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer (Language And Literature Quotes) When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language (Language And Literature Quotes) To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children (Language And Literature Quotes) The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature (Language And Literature Quotes) With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work of literature happens in terms of language. And this is daunting stuff to deal with (Language And Literature Quotes) Virtue is not a chemical product... it is a historic product, like language and literature; and this means that if we cease to care about it, cease to cultivate it, cease to transmit its funded values, a large part of it will become meaningless, like a dead language to which we have lost the key (Language And Literature Quotes) That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature into which I had pushed a little way (Language And Literature Quotes)