Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known.

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.