Dead Language

Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or language:

    Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    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)