Li Xueqin Quotes

If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.

I am completely indebted to Jimmy Baldwin's prose. It liberated me as a writer. These poems overwhelm without competing with his prose, and I am grateful to have this collection.

A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example.

It's a tragedy that a lot of people know more about Shakespeare than about Cao Xueqin.

Is not just a faded echo of the feeble voice of decadent romanticism but an authentic Indian English utterance exquisitely tuned to the composite to Indian ethos, bringing home to the unbiased reader all the opulence, pageantry and charm of Indian life, and the spenders of Indian scene.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

She is smiling and her eyes are kind but now the smile is purely social

When I speak of language, I do not only mean poetic or verbal language: I am thinking of the language of mathematics, of physics, et cetera. It is a fascinating topic. Language is an interface between us and the world. Beyond language there is nothing but pure mystical contemplation of the universe.

Words do not have teeth, still they bite; and once they bite, the wounds never heal.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

Allusions to "hidden counsels" and "mysterious reasons" are almost always the mark of doctrinal incoherence.

Language completes the existence of the world and makes it "usable" for humans.

I am great admirer of China. It has shown great discipline and dedication in attacking n export markets. China is working furiously on its English-language capability and its quality control. As China become stronger, it sends a clear signal that we in India have to harder to stay ahead.

We were promised a better life in our home countries when we were told that privatized water and electricity would make things run more efficiently instead the quality remained almost the same and the price was increased until it became an unaffordable luxury

But African languages refused to die. They would not simply go to the way of Latin to become the fossils for linguistic archaeology to dig up, classify, and argue about the international conferences.