Wendell Berry Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• The language that reveals also obscures.

  Wendell Berry

  Language

  Wendell Berry, Daniel Kemmis, Courtney White (2006). “The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays”, p.130, Counterpoint Press

• We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but they defend what they love. To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.

  Wendell Berry

  Life, People, Needs

  Wendell Berry (2001). “Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition”, Counterpoint Press

• It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.

  Wendell Berry

  World, Impossible, Language

  Wendell Berry, Morris Allen Grubbs (2007). “Conversations with Wendell Berry”, p.172, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• If you're a writer and you are at all inclined to speak as a Christian in some way, you realize very quickly that the conventional language is pretty much useless. It takes a long time to get past that, or it has taken me a long time. People in conventional Christianity have spoken lightly and sometimes frivolously of God for a long time. It's a word that needs to be used sparingly, in my opinion.

  Wendell Berry

  Christian, Taken, Past

• To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.

  Wendell Berry

  Needs, Language, Knows

  Wendell Berry (2001). “Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition”, Counterpoint Press

• The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.

  Wendell Berry

  Way, Language, Construction

  Wendell Berry (2001). “Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition”, Counterpoint Press

• You've got to reach towards a better language, and you're not going to make it up from scratch; you've got to reach back into the tradition. Western tradition is not as impoverished as a lot of people would like to think, but you'd have to go back before the industrial revolution; you may have to go back farther than that. Of course, the Bible has a perfectly adequate language, but it's suffered a lot of thoughtless wear.

  Wendell Berry

  Thinking, People, Scratches

  Wendell Berry, Morris Allen Grubbs (2007). “Conversations with Wendell Berry”, p.172, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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