Private Language

Famous quotes containing the words private and/or language:

“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)

“This is an approach to that universal language which men have sought in vain.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)