Human Language

Famous quotes containing the words human and/or language:

“the thin, long human frame
Upside down in its own strange joy,”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)

“In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a language we do not know is a closed place in which the one we love can deceive us, making us, locked outside and convulsed in our impotence, incapable of seeing or preventing anything.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)