“Sometimes, language is the sound of longing”— Simon Van Booy Related Quotes “I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.”— Katherine Dunn “There was only one huge world with no back to itA world like a sunOne day it broke into tiny piecesThey were the words of the language we now speakPieces that will never come togetherBroken mirrors where the world sees itself shatterered”— Octavio Paz “Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we shall live. Who speaks reason to his fellowmen bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders thought for all who listen. There must be some minimum allowable dose of inanity beyond which the mind cannot remain reasonable. Irrationality, like buried chemical waste, sooner or later must seep into all the tissues of thought.”— Richard Mitchell