Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer
From Nobel Prize for Literature speech 1995
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“Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.”
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“We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.”
Niels Bohr (1885–1962) Danish physicist
In his first meeting with Werner Heisenberg in early summer 1920, in response to questions on the nature of language, as reported in Discussions about Language (1933); quoted in Defense Implications of International Indeterminacy (1972) by Robert J. Pranger, p. 11, and Theorizing Modernism : Essays in Critical Theory (1993) by Steve Giles, p. 28
Context: We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
“Prose uses the medium of language whilst poetry serves language and explores it.”
Michael Schmidt (poet) (1947) American poet
The Great Modern Poets, London, 2006
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: 1930s-1951, The Blue Book (c. 1931–1935; published 1965), p. 25
“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
Per Amica Silentia Lunae (1918): Anima Hominis, part v
“They are learned by the constant use of the language and cannot be taught in any other fashion.”
Richard Hamming (1915–1998) American mathematician and information theorist
Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)
Context: Mathematics, being very different from the natural languages, has its corresponding patterns of thought. Learning these patterns is much more important than any particular result... They are learned by the constant use of the language and cannot be taught in any other fashion.
Niels Bohr (1885–1962) Danish physicist
Remarks after the Solvay Conference (1927)
Context: I feel very much like Dirac: the idea of a personal God is foreign to me. But we ought to remember that religion uses language in quite a different way from science. The language of religion is more closely related to the language of poetry than to the language of science. True, we are inclined to think that science deals with information about objective facts, and poetry with subjective feelings. Hence we conclude that if religion does indeed deal with objective truths, it ought to adopt the same criteria of truth as science. But I myself find the division of the world into an objective and a subjective side much too arbitrary. The fact that religions through the ages have spoken in images, parables, and paradoxes means simply that there are no other ways of grasping the reality to which they refer. But that does not mean that it is not a genuine reality. And splitting this reality into an objective and a subjective side won't get us very far.
José Saramago book The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Source: The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1993), p. 47
Aung San Suu Kyi (1945) State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy
Opening Keynote Address at NGO Forum on Women, Beijing China (1995)