- Nov 07, 2020
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- Color
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- Nov 07, 2020
My interest is in how meaning is communicated via language, and I believe the shape, positioning, even the color of the language has an effect on meaning.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.
- Inevitable
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- Nov 07, 2020
It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Keeping with our family tradition of sending their children abroad for a couple of years, and aware of my interest in chemistry, I was sent to a boarding school in Switzerland when I was 11 years old, on the assumption that German was an important language for a prospective chemist to learn.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.
- Nov 07, 2020
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
- Nov 07, 2020
Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
- American Writers
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed to nineteenth-century American literature. I became interested in the way that American writers used metaphoric language, starting with Emerson.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020