“Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.”
“God in His infinite wisdom blessed humans with redundant tongues: one to outfit the mouth for speech. And a mother tongue to give it meaning... Though it wags out such inconceivable beauty, attached to the mother tongue lies one much maligned woman.”
“Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.”
“After seeing how many people waste their lives, their whole lives (tongues wagging, wagging, wagging, and all the inevitable consequences), silence seems preferable to me, and more necessary than ever. And I well understand, Lord, why we have to give an account of all our idle words.”
“Melancholy persons are foreigners in their mother tongue. The dead language they speak foreshadows their suicide.”