Language is a mixture of statement and evocation

Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

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Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find...

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find...

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do...

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do...

Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you...

Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you...

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over...

First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over...

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live,...

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live,...

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that...

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that...

A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends....

A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends....

Your ideas are like diamonds.. .without the refining process, they are just a dirty rock,...

Your ideas are like diamonds.. .without the refining process, they are just a dirty rock,...

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous...

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous...

When the swords flash let no idea of love, piety, or even the face of...

When the swords flash let no idea of love, piety, or even the face of...

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is...

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is...

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs...

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs...

In all affairs, love, religion, politics, or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then,...

In all affairs, love, religion, politics, or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then,...

An idea is a feat of association.

An idea is a feat of association.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old...

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old...

Everyone is in love with his own ideas

Everyone is in love with his own ideas

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.