Pastoral Resources

Tears are the silent language of grief.

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.

When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.

If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.

There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

If you can not master your language you must be it's slave.

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.