Famous Quotes / Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard: "There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly."
Botched | Certain | Child | Delivers |
Done | Earnestness | English | Fact |
Inflections | Language | Long | Looks |
Mastered | Melody | Pleased | Recognizable |
Sense | Since | Speech | Spoken |
Syllable | Tell | True | Utterly |