Pastoral Resources

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.

High thoughts must have high language.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!

War is what happens when language fails.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

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

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the language of the treaty itself - of SOFA - and of the interim and further arrangements that have been made since 1995, and see whether or not we need to make any changes. Those are decisions I cannot make.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.