Thornton Wilder Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

  Thornton Wilder

  Writing, Winning, Way

  Interview in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, First Series", edited by Malcolm Cowley, 1958.

• People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the beginning of the 20th century. This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our living and in our dying.

  Thornton Wilder

  New York, Growing Up, Book

  Thornton Wilder (1968). “Our town: a play in three acts”

• You swore you loved me, and laughed and warned me that you would not love me forever. I did not hear you. You were speaking in a language I did not understand. Never, never, I can conceive of a love which is able to foresee its own termination. Love is its own eternity. Love is in every moment of its being: all time. It is the only glimpse we are permitted of what eternity is. So I did not hear you. The words were nonsense.

  Thornton Wilder

  Love, Forever, Age

  Thornton Wilder (2009). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926-1948”

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