Dead Language

Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or language:

    “So vulnerable.
    She is already trampled, that one,
    having traveled so far from the heart.
    She weighs so little.
    She is so light and vulnerable.
    She is the dead bee called love.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “These are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people, claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)