Robertson Davies Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

  Robertson Davies

  Educational, Knowledge, Eye

  Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin

• Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who will lie and scheme and steal to get books as wildly and unconscionably as the dope-taker in pursuit of his drug. They may not want the books to read immediately, or at all; they want them to possess, to range on their shelves, to have at command. They want books as a Turk is thought to want concubines - not to be hastily deflowered, but to be kept at their master's call, and enjoyed more often in thought than in reality.

  Robertson Davies

  Lying, Book, Reality

  "Tempest-Tost". Book by Robertson Davies, Part 6, 1951.

• If I had my way books would not be written in English but in an exceedingly difficult secret language.... This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors...who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.

  Robertson Davies

  Country, Book, Doctors

• It seemed to me as if the stones sang, in the strangest voices, in the language of Ultima Thule.

  Robertson Davies

  Voice, Stones, Ultima

  Robertson Davies (1999). “Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre”, Penguin Group USA

• You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your language from Swift, not from Shopsy's.

  Robertson Davies

  Book, Junk, Language

  "Robertson Davies: Man of Myth". Book by Judith Skelton Grant, 1978.

• If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear. . .

  Robertson Davies

  Book, People, Secret

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