“Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives”— Alfred de Musset Related Quotes “Language spread its warm, absurd rays over all my adolescent thoughts, and I felt the way we all long to feel: moody, lonely, lovesick and explosive with the prospects of tomorrow.”— Spencer Gordon “The rhythm of breath may have been our first language.”— Daryl Gregory “It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.”— Ludwig Wittgenstein