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  • 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. -- Robert Fitzgerald
  • England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more directly about my own experience, it wasn't England so much as what went before. -- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  • Our language and literature are without a doubt Britain's greatest contribution to the cultural heritage of the world. -- Tessa Jowell
  • I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society. [p.92] -- Northrop Frye
  • 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. -- John le Carre
  • 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. -- Frederic G. Kenyon
  • Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature. -- Annie Besant
  • The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature. -- Emma Bonino
  • Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. -- Thomas Bulfinch
  • Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped. -- Pankaj Mishra
  • In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it. -- Jacques Derrida
  • Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on. -- Harrison Salisbury
  • I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot of literature and not care about language. -- Twyla Tharp
  • 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. -- Helen Dunmore
  • 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. -- James Earl Jones
  • 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. -- Steven Pinker
  • 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. -- Dinaw Mengestu
  • Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated. -- Marilyn Hacker
  • 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. -- Terry Eagleton
  • 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. -- Polykarp Kusch
  • 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. -- Leslie Jamison
  • 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. -- Caroline Kennedy
  • 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. -- George Edward Woodberry
  • I'm a professor of comparative literature, among other things, so I'm able to read in a couple of other languages, and I understand that not everyone is, not everyone can, although it is quite stunning how many people do read Spanish in the United States, but moving between languages is also extremely helpful. -- Judith Butler
  • Literature is language charged with meaning -- Ezra Pound
  • Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words. -- Amos Oz
  • Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language. -- Pramoedya Ananta Toer
  • Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. -- Terry Eagleton
  • Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. -- Ezra Pound
  • Literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written. -- Amos Oz
  • All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma. -- Jennifer Stone
  • It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself. -- Terry Eagleton
  • Mathematics to me is like a language I donĂ¢??t speak though I admire its literature in translation. -- David Quammen
  • I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed. -- Rita Mae Brown
  • I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature. -- Jean-Jacques Annaud
  • Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination. -- Northrop Frye
  • The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind. -- Edwin Muir
  • Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone. -- Daniel Tammet
  • In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it. -- George Bernard Shaw
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  • There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to our own languages. -- Amish Tripathi
  • 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. -- F. Sionil Jose
  • 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. -- G. H. Hardy
  • 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. -- Storm Jameson
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