Showing posts with label language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label language. Show all posts
Friday, January 7, 2011

Breath and Sign

›
“Language . . . is the real capital in the human sphere. It produces the greatest effect with the least effort (by means of breath and sign)...
Friday, June 25, 2010

The Power, the Magic, and the Mystery of the Word

›
"Opening it entirely at random -- to any page, any paragraph, any sentence -- I feel at once in the presence of the miraculous, awakene...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010

The Magic of Encoded Meaning

›
"I don't really know why I like letters, by which I mean characters by which language is written down, because we really don't ...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

The Innermost Alchemy of the Word

›
"With these sound poems we should renounce language, devastated and made impossible by journalism. We should withdraw into the innermos...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

Magic Words Change as We Use Them

›
"Just as language will change as its speakers use it over decades and centuries, so the language that creates the world—the language th...
Sunday, March 15, 2009

The Language of Poetry as a Minor Magic

›
"To write a poem is to practice a minor magic. The instrument of that magic, language, is quite mysterious. We know nothing of its o...
1 comment:
Tuesday, October 7, 2008

One Word: That's Magic

›
Professional magician John W. LeBlanc notes that there are “untold numbers of anecdotes told by professional performers who found that just ...
1 comment: