Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
T S Eliot
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
Claude Levi-Strauss
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
William Hazlitt
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
Robert Burchfield
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
Marshall McLuhan
To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.
William Cullen Bryant