Famous quotes containing the words language and/or words:
“Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“I am filling the room
with the words from my pen.
Words leak out of it like a miscarriage.
I am zinging words out into the air
and they come back like squash balls.
Yet there is silence.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)