LANGUAGE

1. Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.
   
        -Nicole Brossard



2. Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become, in the hands of one who knows how to combine them !
   
        -Nathaniel Howthorne



3. Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is common to you, me, and everybody.
   
        -T.E.Hulme



4. Words do not change their meaning as much in centuries as names do for us in the space of a few years.
   
        -Marcel Proust



5. Words are like water - the assumption being that it moves in any direction.
   
        -Bernard Malamud