Western Desert Language/language

Famous quotes containing the words western, desert and/or language:

    “Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.”
    —Octavio Paz (b. 1914)

    “This ripe rebuke, this burgeoning affluence
    Mocks me and mocks the desert of my bed.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.”
    —Thomas Mann (1875–1955)