Quotes
Quotes about Age
It is probably easier to make language appeal to the emotions - which usually means the prejudices - than to the understanding.
Literature clearly has something to do with not forcing the reader into a state of mind (or physicality) which places the writer in a position of advantage over him.
On the English Language: A barren land, full of thorn bushes and with birds with strange cries
On what God is like: Like a big symphony. The page of the score of infinite length, the number of instruments infinite but all bound into one big unity. This big symphony plays itself for ever and ever. And who listens to it? It listens to itself. Enjoys itself for ever and ever and ever. It doesnât give a bugger whether you hear it or not.
Only the poetical enquiry can discover what language really is
You have to learn to be alone â no sex, not even any books. All youâll have is language, the great conserver, and poetry, the great isolate shaper. Stock your minds with language, for Christâs sake. Learn how to write whatâs memorable. No, not write â compose in your head.
Some men's sexual limit is the pit. Its rage can find a counterpart in how they mangle, tear and rape their art.
If your goal is pinning me on pages, I decline.
The power of the poet pulsed blood through his body. The truth of life lay in the vatic messages words sent, meanings beyond what the world called meaning.
I mean, what the hell can you do with love except cleanse yourself of it by debasing the image to a lust object?
Music is considered an international language, yet it tends to gross insularity.
In taking in printed information, we engage only the reason, and the reason is best satisfied if it can regard words as visual counters and not auditory complexes.
The Genius is the wild-haired flower of dissidence; he rejects established order and smashes all its images.
The soul cannot achieve the beauty of the Creator-Redeemer, but it can enage itself in humble service, like a plough or a kitchen fire.
The English language is not yet, except in the nonsense of "Jabberwocky", ready for the fusing of two or more words into a new complex entity.
There are two things in the world - language and everything that is not language
A highly sophisticated society will always be tempted to accord language a reality of its own
The novel form calls for a rigidity of control of the linguistic medium which forbids the freer art of the poet. Language must be transparent, not opaque.
Any serious literary artist envies music, which has an apparently self-referrÃng language, cannot preach or inform, and totally identifies form and content
It is in the nature of a structure to be as inexplicable as a passage of music
Some day, all marriages had to become sexless, but then they usually had more than fifteen years to look back on.
That what language is for is communication
... and also, there was (in America)less of a smell of people being dead, somehow. I can't say exactly what I mean, but when you're in any English town you can't help feeling that millions of people are dead and gone there, all through the ages, and their sort of ghosts are floating about and making the place seem a bit depressing and heavy somehow
On the treshold of old age I find myself pretty much without roots - except, as it were, mythical or historical ones that would better do in a TV series than in real life
But the real age, as we are always being told, is an effect of the mind. It is manifested chiefly in lack of interest in life
