Private Language

Famous quotes containing the words private language, private and/or language:

    “Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.”
    —Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

    “Mens sana in men’s sauna, in the flush
    Of health and toilets, private and corporal glee,”
    —Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)

    “Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.”
    —Roland Barthes (1915–1980)