Language And Power Quotes - Page 2

• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

  Matthew Kelly

  Prayer, Book, Reading

  Matthew Kelly (2003). “Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star”, p.243, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Writing, Kind, Power Of Language

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• A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Passion, Language Words

  "Poets at Work" by W. H. Auden, (p. 170), 1948.

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• Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.

  Paul Engle

  Reading Poetry, Ordinary, Tough Skin

  New York Times, February 17, 1957.

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