Common Language

Famous quotes containing the words common and/or language:

“When we are high and airy hundreds say
That if we hold that flight they’ll leave the place,
While those same hundreds mock another day
Because we have made our art of common things ...”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)