Dead Language

Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or language:

    Max, surely you’ll meet me at the Ritz at five.
    Hurry up somebody’s dead we’re still alive.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    I invented the colors of the vowels!—A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green—I made rules for the form and movement of each consonant, and, and with instinctive rhythms, I flattered myself that I had created a poetic language accessible, some day, to all the senses.
    Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891)