Quotes on Parts Of Speech

I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician.

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.