Imprecise Language Quotes

#1. Love's language is imprecise,
fits more like mittens than gloves.

Jeannine Atkins

#2. The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.

Roger Zelazny

#3. It's only pain which leads us to achieve something special.

Anonymous

#4. you can invite trouble if you slouch, avoid eye contact, use vague, imprecise language, and are generally sloppy in your attire.

Carmine Gallo

#5. From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.

Malcolm Gladwell

#6. Language is such an imprecise vehicle I sometimes wonder why we bother with it.

Karen Joy Fowler

#7. If you want to be happy, find out what work makes you feel most alive and go and do it.

Amey Hegde

#8. Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of most poems.

Pattiann Rogers

#9. They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for awhile, then closes
Within a dream.

Ernest Dowson

#10. Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

Kenneth Koch