Language is the main instrument of man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

Language is the main instrument of man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

To many writers and thinkers, though not to all, another text is, or can be, the most naked and charged of life-forces ... The concept of allusion or analogue is totally inadequate. To Dante these other texts are the organic context of identity. They are as directly about life as life is about them.

If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.

He who has read Kafka's Metamorphosis and can look into his mirror unflinching may technically be able to read print, but is illiterate in the only sense that matters.

There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.