Indefinite Language

Famous quotes containing the words indefinite and/or language:

    The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty—of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
    Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

    Translate a book a dozen times from one language to another, and what becomes of its style? Most books would be worn out and disappear in this ordeal. The pen which wrote it is soon destroyed, but the poem survives.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)