Famous quotes containing the words languages and/or spoken:
“It is time for dead languages to be quiet.”
—Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972)
“Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)