Famous Quotes about language

Aberjhani quote #51 from Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.
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Terry Eagleton quote #74 from Literary Theory: An Introduction

Lacan as we have seen in our discussion of Freud regards the unconscious as structured like a language. This is not only because it works by metaphor and metonymy it is also because like language itself for the post-structuralists it is composed less of signs stable meanings than of signifiers. If you dream of a horse it is not immediately obvious what this signifies it may have many contradictory meanings may be just one of a whole chain of signifiers with equally multiple meanings. The image of the horse that is to say is not a sign in Saussures sense - it does not have one determined signified tied neatly to its tail - but is a signifier which may be attached to many different signifieds and which may itself bear the traces of the other signifiers which surround it. I was not aware when I wrote the above sentence of the word-play involved in horse and tail one signifier interacted with another against my conscious intention. The unconscious is just a continual movement and activity of signifiers whose signifieds are often inaccessible to us because they are repressed. This is why Lacan speaks of the unconscious as a sliding of the signified beneath the signifier as a constant fading and evaporation of meaning a bizarre modernist text which is almost unreadable and which will certainly never yield up its final secrets to interpretation.
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Clarissa Pinkola Estés quote #143 from The Gift of Story: A Wise Tale About What is Enough

Like night dreams stores often use symbolic language therefore bypassing the ego and persona and traveling straight to the spirit and soul who listen for the ancient and universal instructions embedded there. Because of this process stories can teach correct errors lighten the heart and the darkness provide psychic shelter assist transformation and heal wounds.
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Paul Russell quote #32 from The Coming Storm

To speak a language that was as intimate and free as certain dreams saying darkly thrillingly My cock inside of you. Your come in my mouth ... He focused on the boys slim tight hips with the tip of his tongue he tasted an assholes bitter forbidden mystery.
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