linguistic harmony Quotes

Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness

Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but in their implications, their sequences, and their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled.

Language must resound with all the harmonies of music. The writer must always, at all times, find the tremulous word which captures the thing and is able to draw a sob from my soul by its very rightness.

Words make love with one another.

One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.

There's a theory, and I think the theory is right, that in order to make a change you've got to make the whole language of the page harmonious. Well, that's a lot easier with a computer.

The juxtaposition of words - the color, feeling, and sound of the words together - has as much to do with the story as the narrative itself does.

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.

Virgil is so exact in every word, that none can be changed but for a worse; nor any one removed from its place, but the harmony will be altered. He pretends sometimes to trip; but it is only to make you think him in danger of a fall, when he is most secure.