Everybody, every profession, every trade changes its vocabulary all of the time. But there is a basic pure human speech that exists in every language. And that is the language of the poet and the writer.


The Paris Review, Issue 29, Winter-Spring 1963, Katherine Anne Porter, The Art of Fiction No. 29

Katherine Anne Porter Quotes

Everybody, every profession, every trade changes its vocabulary all of the time. But there is a basic pure human speech that exists in every...

Everybody, every profession, every trade changes its vocabulary all of the time. But there is a basic pure human speech that exists in every...

Everybody, every profession, every trade changes its vocabulary all of the time. But there is a basic pure human speech that exists in every...

Everybody, every profession, every trade changes its vocabulary all of the time. But there is a basic pure human speech that exists in every...