Language

“집에서 '타샤'라 불리다 윤미래라는 이름을 썼을 땐 뒤에서 누가 저를 불러도 알지 못했죠.”

“We’re split linguistically in so many ways.”

“Yo creo que la poesía se escapa de toda definición.”

“we also wrote in Arabic the explanation of the Orthodox Confession”

“أكره كلمة «التبرع» لمصر.. ولكني أحب أن أطلق عليها كلمة «المساهمة»”

“The poetry, the culture itself, exists not in a dictionary but in the tradition of the spoken word.”

“I cannot make up words to do this.”

“古无舌头舌上之分，知彻澄三母，以今音读之，与照穿床无别也，求之古音，则与端透定无异。”

“There are parallels but not similarities.”

“Personally, I have always thought that we ought to put a lot of resources in the way of African languages.”

“This is the benediction that is celebrated, a fresh language and a fresh people, and this is the frightening duty owed.”

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

“經以明道，以求道者不必空執義理求之也。但當正文字，辨音讀，釋訓詁，通傳注，則義理自見，而道在其中矣。”

“It is a question of developing a personal language.”

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”

“It is ordained of God that in the Philippines, the Iglesia Evangelica Metodista en las Islas Filipinas be established, which shall be run by Filipinos and where the Gospel shall be preached in the languages of the Philippines.”

“Nós queremos falar uma linguagem para ser ouvida, uma linguagem comprometida com a ação.”

“Speech is the great instrument by which man becomes beneficial to man.”

“We cannot do without Urdu.”

“The most important thing is that I'm writing in Irish Gaelic.”