Reads tagged with “language”
The Conscience of Words: Susan Sontag on the Wisdom of Literature, the Danger of Opinions, and the Writer’s Task
“A writer ought not to be an opinion-machine… The job of the writer is to make us see the world as it is, full of many different claims and parts and experiences.”
Finding Poetry in Other Lives: James Baldwin on Shakespeare, Language as a Tool of Love, and the Poet’s Responsibility to a Divided Society
“The greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. He could have done this only through love — by knowing… that whatever was happening to anyone was happening to him.”
Mapping the Heavens: How Cosmology Shaped Our Understanding of the Universe and the Strange Story of How the Term “Black Hole” Was Born
From Calcutta’s most macabre prison to the ivory towers of Cambridge, by way of ancient mythology and Einstein.
Daytime Visions: A Tender and Unusual Illustrated Alphabet Celebrating the Whimsy of Words
“Words are a wonderful kind of glue.”
A Darkly Delightful 1905 Poem Celebrating Punctuation, Newly Illustrated in Silkscreened Typographic Art
“The semicolons’ mournful racket is drowned out by surrounding brackets…”
Storytelling and the Power of Language: Toni Morrison’s Spectacular Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
Eudora Welty on Friendship as an Evolutionary Mechanism for Language
“When we learned to speak to, and listen to, rather than to strike or be struck by, our fellow human beings, we found something worth keeping alive, worth possessing, for the rest of time.”
Strong as a Bear: An Illustrated Celebration of Animals and Their Emotional Presence in Language
Free as a bird, busy as a bee, and the rest of the metaphorical menagerie of the human imagination.
Audre Lorde on the Vulnerability of Visibility and Our Responsibility, to Ourselves and Others, to Break Our Silences
“That visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.”
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