Quotes by Porter, Katherine Anne

There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of >>

A cultivated style would be like a mask. Everybody knows it's a mask, >>

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth >>

Quotations about Language

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. >>

I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, >>

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat differe >>

You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.

Porter, Katherine Anne