Language in Literature Quotes

“I believe
that the poetic incompetence of some bigoted linguists has been mis­
taken for an inadequacy of the linguistic science itself. All of us here,
however, definitely realize that a linguist deaf to the poetic function of
language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistic problems and
unconversant with linguistic methods are equally flagrant anachro­nisms.”
― Roman Jakobson, Language in Literature