Famous quotes containing the words poetic and/or language:
“You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)