Language Formation Quotes

A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates.

Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them

Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.

You think, you don't just speak. The lines come off the thoughts.

Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.

You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's pain and harshness and wretched dreariness with - no not with certainty but with an ignorance you could live with. Deep ignorance, but still a kind that knew its limits. The limits were crucial.

The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.

Music therapy was so important in the early stages of my recovery because it can help retrain different parts of your brain to form language centers in areas where they weren't before you were injured.

Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

When you stop to examine the way in which our words are formed and uttered, our sentences are hard-put to it to survive the disaster of their slobbery origins.

Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.

Much of my experience with language was formed in the church, which has an oral tradition. There are lots of repetitions in prayers and song refrains. There's a sense of incantation, that if you call not once and not twice but for a third time, the spirit appears.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.

English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

It's true and it's easily said that language is material, and something does materialise as one writes.

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

At still higher doses psilocybin triggers this activity in the language-forming capacity of the brain that manifests as song and vision. Psilocybin may have synergized the emergence of higher forms of psychic organization out of primitive protohuman animals. It can be seen as a kind of evolutionary enzyme, or evolutionary catalyst.

Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a set means of instruction but as a social necessity.

A sound waiting to be a word.

No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language from scratch.

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.