List of Cultural Icons of The Netherlands - Language

Famous quotes containing the word language:

“the language obscene

An engine, an engine
Chuffing me off like a Jew.”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

“Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

“The human face is the organic seat of beauty.... It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.”
—Eliza Farnham (1815–1864)