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The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.

— Robert Fitzgerald

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✓Similar Perspectives

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.

— Bridgit Mendler

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.

— Edward Sapir

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

— Gates McFadden

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

— Carol Ann Duffy

Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.

— Robert Smithson

Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.

— Walter Lang

The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction.

— Godfrey Reggio

✗Opposing Perspectives

Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.

— J. M. G. Le Clezio

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

— Charlemagne