All MARGARET ATWOOD Quotes about “Language”

“Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.”
“Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.”
“A language is everything you do.”
“A language is everything you do.”
“Our biggest technology that we ever, ever invented was articulated language with built-out grammar. It is that that allows us to imagine things far in the future and things way back in the past.”
“Our biggest technology that we ever, ever invented was articulated language with built-out grammar. It is that that allows us to imagine things far in the future and things way back in the past.”
“As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.”
“As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.”
“poetry is where the language is renewed.”
“poetry is where the language is renewed.”

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