<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=336497" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Linguist</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If we lived in a world where bells<br>truly say "ding-dong" and where "moo"<br>is a rather neat thing<br>said by a cow,<br>I could believe you could believe<br>that these sounds I make in the air<br>and these shapes with which I blacken white paper<br>have some reference<br>to the thoughts in my mind<br>and the feelings in the thoughts.<br>As things are,<br>if I were to gaze in your eyes and say<br>"bow-wow" or "quack", you must take that to be<br>a despairing anthology of praises,<br>a concentration of all the opposites<br>of reticence, a capsule<br>of my meaning of meaning<br>that I can no more write down<br>than I could spell the sound of the sigh<br>I would then utter, before<br>dingdonging and mooing my way<br>through all the lexicons and languages<br>of imprecision.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Norman+MacCaig">Norman MacCaig</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=336497" data-title="Linguist de Norman MacCaig" data-description="If we lived in a world where bells/truly say "ding-dong" and where "moo"/is a rather neat thing/said by a cow,/I could believe you could believe/that these sounds I make in the air/and these shapes with which I blacken white paper/have some refere..."></div> </div> </div>

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