Writers' statements about the role of the Russian language. Statements about the Russian language by Russian writers. Short sayings about the Russian language

Literature 5 - 11 grade

School essays

Russian language

To handle language in a haphazard manner means to think haphazardly: imprecisely, approximately, incorrectly.
(A.N. Tolstoy).

There are no sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which there would not be an exact expression in our language. You can do wonders with the Russian language!
(K. G. Paustovsky).

The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich, and everything is enriched with amazing speed.
(Maksim Gorky).

You marvel at the preciousness of our language: every sound is a gift; everything is grainy, large, like the pearl itself, and truly, another name is more precious than the thing itself.
(N.V. Gogol).


(I.S. Turgenev).


(K. G. Paustovsky).

Language, our magnificent language. There is expanse of river and steppe in it, In it are the screams of an eagle and the roar of a wolf, The chanting, and the ringing, and the incense of pilgrimage.
(K.D. Balmont).

Pushkin also spoke about punctuation marks. They exist to highlight a thought, bring words into the correct relationship, and give a phrase ease and proper sound. Punctuation marks are like musical notations. They hold the text firmly and do not allow it to crumble.
(K. G. Paustovsky).


(M.V. Lomonosov).

The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious.
(A.I. Kuprin).

In days of doubt, in days painful thoughts about the fate of my homeland - you alone are my support and support, oh great, powerful, truthful and free Russian language!.., it is impossible to believe that such a language was not given to a great people!
(I.S. Turgenev).


(M. Gorky).


(N.V. Gogol).

Our beautiful language, under the pen of uneducated and inexperienced writers, is rapidly declining. Words are distorted. Grammar fluctuates. Spelling, this heraldry of the language, changes at the will of one and all.
(A.S. Pushkin).

Statements of great people about the Russian language.

Russian language!
For millennia, this flexible, lush, inexhaustibly rich, intelligent,
poetic and labor tool of his social life, your thoughts, your feelings,
your hopes, your anger, your great future.
A. V. Tolstoy

May there be honor and glory to our language, which in its very native richness, almost without any foreign admixture, flows like a proud majestic river- makes noise and thunders - and suddenly, if necessary, it softens, gurgles like a gentle stream and sweetly flows into the soul, forming all the measures that only exist
in the fall and rise of the human voice!
Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin

True love love for one’s country is unthinkable without love for one’s language.

Our beautiful language, from the pen of unlearned and unskilled writers,
is rapidly heading towards a fall. Words are distorted. Grammar fluctuates.
Spelling, this heraldry of the language, changes at the will of one and all.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

You marvel at the preciousness of our language: every sound is a gift: everything is grainy, large, like the pearl itself, and, truly, another name is even more precious than the thing itself.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

In days of doubt, in days of painful thoughts about the fate of my homeland, you alone are my support and support, oh great, mighty, truthful and free Russian language! Without you, how can one not fall into despair at the sight of everything that is happening at home?
But one cannot believe that such a language was not given to a great people!
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Pushkin also spoke about punctuation marks. They exist to highlight a thought, bring words into the correct relationship, and give a phrase ease and proper sound. Punctuation marks are like musical notations.
They hold the text firmly and do not allow it to crumble.
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky

Language is the history of the people. Language is the path of civilization and culture. That is why learning and preserving the Russian language is not an idle hobby
out of nothing to do, but an urgent need.
Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin

Use a foreign word when there is an equivalent one Russian word,
- means to insult and common sense, and sound taste.

The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious.
Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin

Language is a ford across the river of time, it leads us to the home of the departed;
but no one who is afraid of deep water will be able to come there.
Vladislav Markovich Illich-Svitych

Stretch out in enriching the mind and beautifying Russian word.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov

Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language is a treasure, this is an asset passed on to us by our predecessors! Handle this powerful tool with respect; in skillful hands it is capable of performing miracles.
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Only having mastered the original material, that is, our native language, to the possible perfection, will we be able to
learn a foreign language, but not before.
Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Ugly, dissonant words should be avoided. I don’t like words with a lot of hissing and whistling sounds, so I avoid them.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The word of a Briton will echo with heartfelt knowledge and wise knowledge of life; The short-lived word of the Frenchman will flash and scatter like a light dandy; the German will intricately come up with his own clever and thin word, which is not accessible to everyone; but there is no word that would be so sweeping, lively, so bursting out from under the very heart, so seething and vibrantly trembling, like a well-spoken Russian word.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

The language that the Russian state commands over a great part of the world, due to its power, has natural abundance, beauty and strength, which is not inferior to any European language. And there is no doubt that the Russian word could not be brought to such perfection as we are surprised at in others.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov

Our Russian language, more than all the new ones, is perhaps capable of approaching the classical languages ​​in its richness, strength, freedom of arrangement, and abundance of forms.
Nikolai Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov

That the Russian language is one of the richest languages ​​in the world,
there is no doubt about it.
Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky

The beauty, greatness, strength and richness of the Russian language is abundantly clear from books written in past centuries, when our ancestors not only did not know any rules for writing, but they hardly even thought that they existed or could exist.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov

The main character of our language lies in the extreme ease with which everything is expressed in it - abstract thoughts, internal lyrical feelings, “the scurrying of life,” a cry of indignation, sparkling prank and amazing passion.
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen

Nothing is so ordinary for us, nothing seems so simple as our speech, but in our very being there is nothing as surprising, as wonderful as our speech.
Alexander Nikolaevich Radishchev

Among the magnificent qualities of our language there is one that is absolutely amazing and hardly noticeable. It lies in the fact that its sound is so diverse that it contains the sound of almost all the languages ​​of the world.
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky

The Russian language is revealed to the end in its truly magical properties and wealth only to those who deeply love and know their people “to the bone.”
and feels the hidden beauty of our land.
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky

There is one significant fact: we are still on our
in an unsettled and young language we can convey
the deepest forms of spirit and thought of European languages.
Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

The natural wealth of the Russian language and speech is so great that without further ado, listening to time with your heart, in close communication with a simple person and with a volume of Pushkin in your pocket you can become an excellent writer.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin

The Russian language, as far as I can judge of it, is the richest of all European dialects and seems deliberately created to express the subtlest shades. Gifted with wonderful conciseness, combined with clarity, he is content with one word to convey thoughts when another language would require whole phrases for this.
Prosper Merimee

The beauty, greatness, strength and richness of the Russian language is abundantly clear from books written in past centuries, when our ancestors not only did not know any rules for writing, but they hardly even thought that they existed or could exist.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov

Our speech is predominantly aphoristic,
It is distinguished by its compactness and strength.
Maksim Gorky

The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich and everything is being enriched with amazing speed.
Maksim Gorky

Perception of other people's words, and especially without necessity,
there is not enrichment, but corruption of the language.
Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov

I do not consider foreign words good and suitable unless they can be replaced by purely Russian or more Russified ones.
We must protect our rich and beautiful language from damage.
Nikolai Semenovich Leskov

There is no doubt that the desire to replete Russian speech with foreign words unnecessarily, without sufficient reason, is contrary to common sense and common taste; but it does not harm the Russian language or Russian literature, but only those who are obsessed with it.
Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky

Our native language should be the main basis of our general education
and education of each of us.
Petr Andreevich Vyazemsky

We must love and preserve those examples of the Russian language,
which we inherited from first-class masters.
Dmitry Andreevich Furmanov

Language is important for a patriot.
Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin

By the attitude of each person to his language, one can accurately judge not only his cultural level, but also his civic value.
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky

Language is the history of a people. Language is the path of civilization and culture...
That is why studying and preserving the Russian language is not an idle activity because there is nothing to do, but an urgent necessity.
Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin

Knowledge of Russian language, - language, which fully deserves study both in itself, because it is one of the strongest and richest living languages, and for the sake of the literature it reveals, is now not such a rarity.
Friedrich Engels

The heavenly beauty of our language will never be trampled upon by cattle.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov

As a material for literature, the Slavic-Russian language has an undeniable superiority over all European ones.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

There are no such sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple -
for which there would be no exact expression in our language.
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky

To handle the language somehow means to think somehow:
approximately, inaccurately, incorrectly.
Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Language is an image of everything that existed, exists and will exist - everything that the human mental eye can embrace and comprehend.
Alexey Fedorovich Merzlyakov

Language is the confession of the people, His soul and way of life are native.
Petr Andreevich Vyazemsky

The Slavic-Russian language, according to the testimony of foreign aesthetes themselves, is not inferior to Latin either in courage, Greek or fluency, and surpasses all European languages: Italian, Spanish and French, not to mention German.
Gabriel Romanovich Derzhavin

What is language? First of all, it is not only a way to express your thoughts, but also to create your thoughts. The tongue has reverse action.
A person who turns his thoughts, his ideas, his feelings into language...
it also seems to be permeated by this way of expression.
Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy

It's not scary to lie dead under bullets,
It's not bitter to be homeless,
And we will save you, Russian speech,
The Great Russian Word.
We will carry you free and clean,
We will give it to our grandchildren and save us from captivity
Forever.
Anna Andreevna Akhmatova

But what disgusting bureaucratic language! Based on that situation... on the one hand... on the other hand - and all this without any need. “Nevertheless” and “to the extent that” the officials composed. I read and spit.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Follow the rule persistently: so that words are cramped and thoughts are spacious.
Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov

There is nothing sedimentary or crystalline in the Russian language;
everything excites, breathes, lives.
Alexey Stepanovich Khomyakov

The greatest wealth of a people is its language! For thousands of years, countless treasures of human thought and experience accumulate and live forever in the word.
Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov

The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich, and everything is being enriched with amazing speed.
Maksim Gorky

The richer the language is in expressions and turns of phrase, the better for a skilled writer.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

Beware of refined language. The language should be simple and elegant.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Tongue and gold are our dagger and poison.
Mikhail Yurjevich Lermontov

The language of the people is the best, never fading and forever
the newly blossoming flower of his entire spiritual life.
Konstantin Dmitrievich Ushinsky

The Russian language is quite rich, however, it has its drawbacks, and one of them is hissing sound combinations: -vsha, -vshi, -vshu, -shcha, -shchi. On the first page of your story, “lice” crawls into large quantities: worked, spoke, arrived.
It is quite possible to do without insects.
Maksim Gorky

Charles V, the Roman Emperor, used to say that Spanish It is decent to speak with God, French - with friends, German - with the enemy, Italian - with the female sex. But if he knew Russian, then of course he would have added that it is decent for them to speak to everyone, because... I would find in it the splendor of Spanish, and the liveliness of French, and the strength of German, and the tenderness of Italian, and the richness and strong figurativeness of Latin and Greek language.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov

No matter what you say, your native language will always remain native. When you want to talk to your heart's content, not a single one French word it doesn’t come to mind, but if you want to shine, then that’s a different matter.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

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Statements outstanding writers about the Russian language

Russian language! For millennia, the people created this flexible, magnificent, inexhaustibly rich, intelligent, poetic and laboring instrument of their social life, their thoughts, their feelings, their hopes, their anger, their great future. A. N. Tolstoy

The Russian language is, first of all, Pushkin - the indestructible mooring of the Russian language. These are Lermontov, Leo Tolstoy, Leskov, Chekhov, Gorky.

A. Ya. Tolstoy

The language that the Russian state rules over a great part of the world, in terms of its power, has natural abundance, beauty and strength, which is not inferior to any European language. And for this reason, there is no doubt that the Russian word could not be brought to such perfection as we are surprised at in others. M. V. Lomonosov

Our Russian language, more than all the new ones, is perhaps capable of approaching the classical languages ​​in its richness, strength, freedom of arrangement, and abundance of forms. Y. A. Dobrolyubov

That the Russian language is one of the richest languages ​​in the world, there is no doubt about it. V. G. Belinsky

In days of doubt, in days of painful thoughts about the fate of my homeland - you alone are my support and support, oh great, powerful, truthful and free Russian language!.., it is impossible to believe that such a language was not given to a great people! I. S. Turgenev

You marvel at the preciousness of our language: every sound is a gift: everything is grainy, large, like the pearl itself, and, truly, another name is even more precious than the thing itself. N.V. Gogol

The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious. A. I. Kuprin

May there be honor and glory to our language, which in its native richness, almost without any foreign admixture, flows like a proud, majestic river - it makes noise, thunders - and suddenly, if necessary, softens, gurgles like a gentle brook and sweetly flows into the soul, forming all the measures that consist only in the fall and rise of the human voice! N. M. Karamzin

We have been given possession of the richest, most accurate, powerful and truly magical Russian language. K. G. Paustovsky

The Russian language is fully revealed in its truly magical properties and wealth only to those who deeply love and know their people “to the bone” and feel the hidden charm of our land.

K. G. Paustovsky

The Russian language is a language created for poetry; it is extremely rich and remarkable mainly for the subtlety of its shades. P. Merimee

The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich and everything is being enriched with amazing speed. M. Gorky

Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language - this is a treasure, this is an asset passed on to us by our predecessors! Handle this powerful tool with respect.

I. S. Turgenev

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Reviews

Thank you, Evelina, for the selection of classic sayings about the Russian language! Thank you for your concern, as well as for your love for the Russian language, which so many people lack. And the love of experimenting with the language of some “poets” often confuses me. I have some thoughts, but they need to be put in order, so for now I’m just reading the statements of great people and trying to treat the “great and mighty” with care.

Thank you, Irina!
Yes, reading the thoughts of great people is really interesting and instructive! I think our thoughts are no less interesting, therefore, don’t be modest and don’t “comb them” too much! Let them be what they came to mind.))) Let’s discuss, talk, maybe we’ll find our own aphorisms!)))
Best regards, Elvina

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There is a power of grace
In the consonance of living words,
And an incomprehensible one breathes,
Holy beauty in them.
M. Yu. Lermontov

Language is the confession of the people,
His soul and life are dear.
P. A. Vyazemsky

Blessed is he who rules firmly with his word
And keeps his thoughts on a leash.
A. S. Pushkin

Pushkin sounds so wonderful,
Our tongue writhes in anguish,
When they send ungodly
On it, in Russian.
E. A. Evtushenko

Language, our magnificent language,
River and steppe expanse in it,
It contains the screams of an eagle and the roar of a wolf,
The chanting, and the ringing, and the incense of pilgrimage.
K. D. Balmont

And we will save you, Russian speech,
Great Russian word.
We will carry you free and clean,
We will give it to our grandchildren and save us from captivity
Forever!
A. A. Akhmatova

Friends, take care of yourself,
When you speak Russian.
After all, this is our native language -
Save it for your grandchildren!
E. Ya. Vesnik

He came to us by inheritance,
For us it is more valuable than anything,
We replace with someone else's copper
We don't dare gold it.

Like a guardian of a precious chalice,
We must preserve the gift of centuries
And the new shine of our life
Enrich your native speech.
S. N. Sergeev-Tsensky

Learn Russian
If you want to beat fate,
If you are looking for joy in a flower garden,
If you need solid support -
Learn Russian language!

He is your great, mighty mentor,
He is a translator, he is a guide.
If you storm knowledge steeply -
Learn Russian
S. Abdullah

... our language is wonderful,
Metallic, sonorous, humming.
Our wild, accurate tongue!
N. M. Yazykov

Word
The tombs, mummies and bones are silent, -
Only the word is given life:
From ancient darkness, on the world graveyard,
Only the Letters sound.

And we have no other property!
Know how to take care
At least to the best of my ability, in days of anger and suffering,
Our immortal gift is speech.
I. A. Bunin

The rulers also disappeared
Instantly and for sure
When they accidentally encroached
To the Russian essence of the language.
Y. V. Smelyakov

There are speeches - meaning
Dark or insignificant
But they don't care
It's impossible to listen.

How full their sounds are
Madness of desire!
They contain tears of separation,
They have the thrill of a date.

Will not meet with an answer
Among the noise of the world
Of flame and light
Born word;

But in the temple, in the middle of the battle
And wherever I will be,
Hearing him, I
I recognize it everywhere.

Without finishing the prayer,
I will answer that sound,
And I'll throw myself out of battle
I will meet him.
M. Yu. Lermontov

Words

There are many words on earth. There are daily words -
They show the blue of the spring sky.

There are night words that we talk about during the day
We remember with a smile and sweet shame.

There are words - like wounds, words - like judgment, -
They do not surrender and are not taken prisoner.

A word can kill, a word can save,
With a word you can lead the shelves with you.

In a word you can sell, and betray, and buy,
The word can be poured into striking lead.

But there are words for all words in our language:
Glory, Motherland, Loyalty, Freedom and Honor.

I don’t dare repeat them at every step, -
Like banners in a case, I treasure them in my soul.

Who often repeats them - I don’t believe him
He will forget about them in fire and smoke.

He won't remember them on the burning bridge,
They will be forgotten by someone else in a high position.

Anyone who wants to profit from proud words
Countless dust insults the heroes,

Those in dark forests and in damp trenches,
Without repeating these words, they died for them.

Let them not serve as bargaining chips, -
Keep them in your heart as a golden standard!

And do not make them servants in small households -
Take care of their original purity.

When joy is like a storm, or grief is like night,
Only these words can help you!
V. S. Shefner

Native language!
I have known him since childhood.
It was the first time I said “mom”
On it I swore stubborn allegiance,
And every breath I take is clear to me.
Native language!
He is dear to me, he is mine,
On it the winds whistle in our foothills,
It was the first time I heard
Sometimes the birds babble in green to me.
But, like a native,
I love the Russian language
I need him like heaven
Every moment.
It has lively, quivering feelings.
Opened up to me.
And the world opened up in them.

I understood the word “happiness” in Russian,
It's a great happiness to live in a big country,
With him I am not afraid of grief and bad weather,
With him I will not burn in any fire.
Two rivers flow in the heart without growing shallow,
They become one river...
Having forgotten my native language, I will go numb.
Having lost Russian, I will become deaf.
T. M. Zumakulova

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The old style attracts me.
There is charm in ancient speech.
It happens in our words
both more modern and sharper.

Shout out: “Half a kingdom for a horse!” -
what irascibility and generosity!
But it will come down on me too
the last enthusiasm is futility.

Someday I'll wake up in the dark,
forever losing the battle,
and now it will come to my memory
madman's ancient decision.

Oh, what half a kingdom is for me!
A child taught by centuries,
I'll take the horse, I'll give the horse
in half a moment with a person,

beloved by me. God be with you,
O my horse, my horse, my zealous horse.
I am your reason for free
I'll weaken - and my dear herd

you'll catch up, you'll catch up there,
in the steppe empty and reddish.
And I'm tired of the chatter
these victories and defeats.

I feel sorry for the horse! I'm sorry love!
And in a medieval manner
falls under my feet
just a trace left by a horseshoe.
B. A. Akhmadulina

Word
On that day, when over the new world
God bowed his face, then
Stopped the sun with a word
In short, they destroyed cities.

And the eagle did not flap its wings,
The stars huddled in horror towards the moon,
If, like a pink flame,
The word floated above.

And for the low life there were numbers,
Like livestock, livestock,
Because all shades of meaning
Smart number conveys.

Patriarch gray-haired, under his arm
Conquered both good and evil,
Not daring to turn to sound,
I drew a number in the sand with a cane.

But we forgot that it is shining
Only a word among earthly anxieties,
And in the Gospel of John
It is said that this word is God.

We set a limit for him
The meager limits of nature,
And like bees in an empty hive,
Dead words smell bad.
N. S. Gumilev

Native language
My faithful friend! My enemy is insidious!
My king! My slave! Native language!
My poems are like altar smoke!
How furious a challenge is my cry!

You gave wings to a crazy dream,
You have tied your dream in chains.
Saved me in hours of powerlessness
And he crushed with excess strength.

How often in the secret of strange sounds
And in the hidden sense of words
I found the melody of the unexpected,
Poems that took possession of me!

But often, exhausted by joy
Or quietly intoxicated with melancholy,
I waited in vain to be in tune
With a trembling soul - your echo!

You wait like a giant.
I bow my face to you.
And yet I won’t get tired of fighting
I am like Israel with a deity!

There is no limit to my persistence.
You are in eternity, I am in short days,
But still, as a magician, submit to me,
Or turn the madman to dust!

Your wealth, by inheritance,
I, impudent, demand for myself.
I issue a call - you answer,
I'm coming - get ready to fight!

But the winner is defeated,
I will equally fall before you:
You are my avenger, you are my savior,
Your world is forever my abode,
Your voice is the sky above me!
V. Ya. Bryusov

Sayings about the Russian language

The Russian language is a language created for poetry; it is unusually rich and remarkable for the subtlety of its shades.

P. Merimee

The Russian language, as far as I can judge of it, is the richest of all European dialects and seems deliberately created to express the subtlest shades. Gifted with wonderful conciseness, combined with clarity, he is content with one word to convey thoughts when another language would require whole phrases for this.

P. Merimee

Charles the Fifth, the Roman Emperor, used to say that it is decent to speak Spanish with God, French with friends, German with the enemy, and Italian with the female sex. But if he were skilled in the Russian language, then, of course, he would have added that it is decent for them to speak with all of them, for he found in him the splendor of Spanish, the liveliness of French, the strength of German, the tenderness of Italian, and, moreover, a rich and strong brevity in the images Greek and Latin languages.
The language that the Russian state commands over a great part of the world, due to its power, has natural abundance, beauty and strength, which is not inferior to any European language. And there is no doubt that the Russian word could not be brought to such perfection as we are surprised at in others.

M. V. Lomonosov

The beauty, greatness, strength and richness of the Russian language is abundantly clear from books written in past centuries, when our ancestors not only did not know any rules for writing, but they hardly even thought that they existed or could exist.

M. V. Lomonosov

You marvel at the preciousness of our language: every sound is a gift: everything is grainy, large, like the pearl itself, and, truly, another name is even more precious than the thing itself.

N.V. Gogol

There is an abyss of space in every word, every word is immense...

N.V. Gogol

The greatest wealth of a people is its language! For thousands of years, countless treasures of human thought and experience accumulate and live forever in the word.

M. A. Sholokhov

Every nation has distinguished itself in its own way, each with its own word, with which, expressing whatever object it is, it reflects in its expression a part of its own character. The word of a Briton will echo with heart knowledge and wise knowledge of life; The short-lived word of a Frenchman will flash and spread like a light dandy; the German will intricately come up with his own, not accessible to everyone, clever and thin word; but there is no word that would be so sweeping, lively, would burst out from under the very heart, would seethe and vibrate so much, like a well-spoken Russian word.

N.V. Gogol

Read common folk tales, young writers, to see the properties of the Russian language.

A. S. Pushkin

Language is the centuries-old work of an entire generation.

V. I. Dal

May there be honor and glory to our language, which in its native richness, almost without any foreign admixture, flows like a proud, majestic river - it makes noise, thunders - and suddenly, if necessary, softens, gurgles like a gentle brook and sweetly pours into the soul, forming all measures that consist only in the fall and rise of the human voice.

N. M. Karamzin

Our Russian language, more than all the new ones, is perhaps capable of approaching the classical languages ​​in its richness, strength, freedom of arrangement, and abundance of forms.

N. A. Dobrolyubov

To use a foreign word when there is an equivalent Russian word means to insult both common sense and common taste.

V. G. Belinsky

That the Russian language is one of the richest languages ​​in the world, there is no doubt about it.

V. G. Belinsky

Only having mastered the initial material, that is, our native language, to the possible perfection, will we be able to master a foreign language to the possible perfection, but not before.

F. M. Dostoevsky

In days of doubt, in days of painful thoughts about the fate of my homeland - you alone are my support and support, oh great, mighty, truthful and free Russian language! Without you, how can one not fall into despair at the sight of everything that is happening at home? But one cannot believe that such a language was not given to a great people!

I. S. Turgenev

The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious.

A. I. Kuprin

Language is the history of a people. Language is the path of civilization and culture. That is why studying and preserving the Russian language is not an idle activity because there is nothing to do, but an urgent necessity.

A. I. Kuprin

To handle language somehow means to think differently: inaccurately, approximately, incorrectly.

A. N. Tolstoy

The word is the great weapon of life.

V. O. Klyuchevsky

The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich and everything is being enriched with amazing speed.

M. Gorky

Our speech is predominantly aphoristic, distinguished by its conciseness and strength.

M. Gorky

The greatest value of a people is its language. The language in which he writes, speaks, thinks.<...>Language and thinking are closely related. If language becomes impoverished, thinking will also become impoverished. Language relies in its development on writing, and in it mainly on literature. And literature is of enormous importance for the development of morality.<...>Much has been written about the Russian language as the language of the people. This is one of the most perfect languages ​​of the world, a language that has developed over more than a millennium, giving in the 19th century the best literature and poetry in the world.

D. S. Likhachev

Language is a ford across the river of time, it leads us to the home of the departed; but no one who is afraid of deep water will be able to come there.

V. M. Illich-Svitych

The Russian language is fully revealed in its truly magical properties and wealth only to those who deeply love and know their people “to the bone” and feel the hidden charm of our land.

K. G. Paustovsky

True love for one's country is unthinkable without love for one's language.

K. G. Paustovsky

There are no sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which there would not be an exact expression in our language.
... You can do wonders with the Russian language!

K. G. Paustovsky

We have been given possession of the richest, most accurate, powerful and truly magical Russian language.

K. G. Paustovsky

Many Russian words themselves radiate poetry, just as gems radiate a mysterious shine...

K. G. Paustovsky

The natural richness of the Russian language and speech is so great that without further ado, listening to the times with your heart, in close communication with the common man and with a volume of Pushkin in your pocket, you can become an excellent writer.

M. M. Prishvin

Reflecting the geographical expanses and “civility” of different peoples, the image of “ever-creating Russia,” the Russian language carries the eternal values ​​of beauty and grace, which, according to Dostoevsky, “will save everything.”

V. G. Kostomarov

A truly strong and healthy, balanced person will not speak loudly unnecessarily, will not swear or use slang words. After all, he is sure that his word is already significant.

D. S. Likhachev

Sayings about literature

Literature in all its forms is nothing more than the shadow of a good conversation.

R. Stevenson

Literature gives us a colossal, vast and profound experience of life. It makes a person intelligent, develops in him not only a sense of beauty, but also understanding - an understanding of life, all its complexities, serves as a guide to other eras and to other peoples, opens the hearts of people to you. In a word, it makes you wise.

D. S. Likhachev

Literature is the expression of society, just as the word is the expression of man.

L. G. A. Bonald

Literature is a guide human mind human race.

V. Hugo

No genre of literature contains as much fiction as biography.

W. E. Channing (Channing)

Literature has been removed from the laws of decay. She alone does not recognize death.

M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin

Learned literature saves people from ignorance, and elegant literature saves people from rudeness and vulgarity.

N. G. Chernyshevsky

Literature is born from the depths of the people's soul.

A. Mitskevich

Society finds in literature its real life, elevated to an ideal, brought to consciousness.

V. G. Belinsky

Literature... must be faithful to the people, must passionately and zealously advocate for their progress, prosperity and happiness.

Charles Dickens

Literature is when the reader is as talented as the writer.

M. A. Svetlov

Literature is an activity in which you have to prove again and again that you have talent to people who are devoid of any talents.

J. Renard

Literature deteriorates only to the extent that people become more depraved.

I. Goethe

The trouble with other literature is that thinking people they do not write, and those who write do not think.

P. A. Vyazemsky

In literature, as in life, one must remember one rule: a person will repent a thousand times for saying a lot, but never for saying little.

A. F. Pisemsky

Just as in politics one well-aimed word, one wit often has a more decisive effect than an entire Demosthenes speech, so in literature miniatures often live longer than thick novels.

S. Zweig

Many literary works owe their success to the poverty of the author’s thoughts, for it is akin to the poverty of the public’s thoughts.

N. Chamfort

Manuscripts don't burn.

The Russian language is not just a means of communication, it is an integral part of the culture in which the essence of the nation is expressed.

Numerous statements by great Russian and foreign writers And public figures about the strength, richness and artistic expressiveness of the Russian language.

On the occasion of the Day of Slavic Culture and Literature, we offer readers a selection of the most famous and striking statements about the Russian language from the card index of quotes from the Central City Hospital named after. A. M. Gorky.

Language, our magnificent language.
River and steppe expanse in it,
It contains the screams of an eagle and the roar of a wolf,
The chanting and ringing and incense of pilgrimage. K. D. Balmont

“There is no doubt that the Russian language is one of the richest languages ​​in the world.” V. G. Belinsky

“We have been given possession of the richest, most accurate, powerful and truly magical Russian language.” N. A. Berdyaev

“Writers are the creators of language (without which it is impossible to compose), and language brings immortality to time and people.” A. A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky

The future is not so much for Russian poetry as for the language. This is such a language that, no matter what is happening in the country, poetry will always produce something wonderful from its depths. It is the language that gives birth to poets, and not poets that give birth to language... And, having a language like Russian, we must understand: poetry is inevitable. And as long as this language exists, something wonderful will happen." I. A. Brodsky

“You marvel at the preciousness of our language: every sound is a gift; everything is grainy, large, like the pearl itself, and, truly, another name is even more precious than the thing itself.” N.V. Gogol

"[...] our extraordinary language is still a mystery. It contains all the tones and shades, all the transitions of sounds from the hardest to the most tender and soft; it is limitless and can, living like life, be enriched every minute..." N.V. Gogol

"Expressed strongly Russian people!" N.V. Gogol

"[...] the Russian language is inexhaustibly rich and everything is enriched with amazing speed." M. Gorky

“Our speech is predominantly aphoristic, distinguished by its conciseness and strength.” M. Gorky

I have the key to all sciences,
I am familiar with the whole Universe -
It's because I own
Russian all-encompassing language... S. P. Danilov

"[...] the Slavic-Russian language, according to the testimony of foreign aestheticians themselves, is not inferior either in courage to Latin or in fluency to Greek, surpassing all European ones: Italian, French and Spanish, and even more so German..." G. R. Derzhavin

“Our Russian language, more than all the new ones, may be capable of approaching the classical languages ​​in its richness, strength, freedom of arrangement, abundance of forms. But in order to take advantage of all its treasures, you need to know it well, you need to be able to master it.” N. A. Dobrolyubov

“The way we say today is how we will live tomorrow.” F. M. Dostoevsky

Not with mother's milk,
Not by reason, not by hearing,
I'm called Russian
To meet God's spirit.

So that, emerging from any crucible
And without burning with thirst,
I spoke to Him in Russian,
He wanted it one day. F. A. Iskander

“Let there be honor and glory to our language, which in its native richness, almost without any foreign admixture, flows like a proud, majestic river - it makes noise, thunders - and suddenly, if necessary, softens, gurgles like a gentle brook and sweetly flows into soul, forming all the measures that consist only in the fall and rise of the human voice! N. M. Karamzin

“Our language is expressive not only for high eloquence, for loud, picturesque poetry, but also for tender simplicity, for sounds of the heart and sensitivity. It is richer in harmony than French; it is more capable of pouring out the soul in tones; it represents more analogous words, that is, consistent with an expressed action: a benefit that only indigenous languages ​​have!" N. M. Karamzin

“The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious.”A. I. Kuprin

“Language is the history of a people. Language is the path of civilization and culture. Therefore, studying and preserving the Russian language is not an idle activity because there is nothing better to do, but an urgent necessity.” A. I. Kuprin

“The beauty, splendor, strength and richness of the Russian language is abundantly clear from books written in past centuries, when our ancestors did not only know any rules for writing, but they hardly even thought that they existed, or could exist.” M. V. Lomonosov

“The language that the Russian state rules over a great part of the world, due to its power, has a natural abundance, beauty and strength, which is not inferior to any European language. And for this reason, there is no doubt that the Russian word could not be brought to such perfection as in others we are surprised." M. V. Lomonosov

“The Russian language is a language created for poetry; it is unusually rich and remarkable mainly for the subtlety of its shades.” Prosper Merimee

“The Russian language, as far as I can judge about it, is the richest of all European dialects and seems deliberately created to express the subtlest shades. Gifted with wonderful conciseness, combined with clarity, it is content with one word to convey a thought, when another language would require whole phrases". Prosper Merimee

“Rich, sonorous, lively, distinguished by the flexibility of stress and infinitely varied in onomatopoeia, capable of conveying the finest shades, endowed, like Greek, with almost limitless creative thought, the Russian language seems created for poetry.” Prosper Merimee

“The Russian language is revealed to the end in its truly magical properties and wealth only to those who deeply love and know their people “to the bone” and feel the hidden charm of our land.” K. G. Paustovsky

“True love for one’s country is unthinkable without love for one’s language. A person indifferent to one’s language is a savage.” K. G. Paustovsky

“The Russian language! For thousands of years the people have been creating this flexible, lush, inexhaustibly rich, intelligent, poetic and labor instrument of their social life, their thoughts, their feelings, their hopes, their anger, their great future.” A. N. Tolstoy

“In days of doubt, in days of painful thoughts about the fate of my homeland, you alone are my support and support, oh great, powerful, truthful and free Russian language! Without you, how can I not fall into despair at the sight of everything that is happening at home? But one cannot believe that such a language was not given to a great people!” I. S. Turgenev

“Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language is a treasure, this is an asset passed on to us by our predecessors [...]! Treat this powerful weapon with respect; in the hands of skilled people it is capable of performing miracles!” I. S. Turgenev

"[...]the Russian language is so viable, healthy and powerful that a thousand times over the centuries it has autocratically subordinated any foreign word, whatever enters its orbit." K. I. Chukovsky

“How beautiful the Russian language is! All the advantages of German without its terrible rudeness.” F. Engels

The heavenly beauty of our language will never be trampled upon by cattle. / The great Russian scientist Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov

As a material for literature, the Slavic-Russian language has an undeniable superiority over all European ones. / Great Russian writer A. S. Pushkin

There are two kinds of nonsense: one comes from a lack of feelings and thoughts, replaced by words; the other is from the fullness of feelings and thoughts and the lack of words to express them. / A. S. Pushkin

Our beautiful language, under the pen of uneducated and inexperienced writers, is rapidly declining. Words are distorted. Grammar fluctuates. Spelling, this heraldry of the language, changes at the will of one and all. / A. S. Pushkin

A person's morality is visible in his attitude to the word. / Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

In fact, for an intelligent person, speaking poorly should be considered as indecent as not being able to read and write. / Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

To handle language in a haphazard manner means to think haphazardly: approximately, imprecisely, incorrectly. / A.N. Tolstoy

Dictionary is everything inside story people. / Great Ukrainian writer N. A. Kotlyarevsky

Not a single spoken word has brought as much benefit as many unspoken ones. / Ancient thinker Plutarch

Language is an image of everything that existed, exists and will exist - everything that the human mental eye can embrace and comprehend. / A. F. Merzlyakov

In literature, as in life, it is worth remembering one rule: a person will repent a thousand times for saying a lot, but never for saying little. / A.F. Pisemsky

Only literature is not subject to the laws of decay. She alone does not recognize death. / M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin

Speech must comply with the laws of logic. / Ancient thinker Aristotle

Language is the confession of the people, His soul and way of life are native. / P. A. Vyazemsky

A beautiful thought loses all its value if it is poorly expressed. / French writer and politician Voltaire

The Slavic-Russian language, according to the testimony of foreign aesthetes themselves, is not inferior to Latin either in courage, Greek or fluency, and surpasses all European languages: Italian, Spanish and French, not to mention German. / G. Derzhavin

We are spoiling the Russian language. We use foreign words unnecessarily. And we use them incorrectly. Why say “defects” when you can say gaps, shortcomings, shortcomings? Isn't it time to declare war on drug use? foreign words without any particular need? / Great leader, father of the revolution of 1917-1918. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

What is language? First of all, it is not only a way to express your thoughts, but also to create your thoughts. Language has the opposite effect. A person who turns his thoughts, his ideas, his feelings into language... he is also, as it were, permeated by this way of expression. / A. N. Tolstoy

The immortality of a people is in its language. / Ch. Aitmatov

Pushkin also spoke about punctuation marks. They exist to highlight a thought, bring words into the correct relationship, and give a phrase ease and proper sound. Punctuation marks are like musical notations. They hold the text firmly and do not allow it to crumble. / K. G. Paustovsky

It’s not scary to lie under dead bullets, It’s not bitter to be homeless, And we will save you, Russian speech, the Great Russian Word. We will carry you free and clean, And we will give you to your grandchildren, and we will save you from captivity Forever. / Outstanding poetess Anna Akhmatova

But what disgusting bureaucratic language! Based on that situation... on the one hand... on the other hand - and all this without any need. “Nevertheless” and “to the extent that” the officials composed. I read and spit. / A. P. Chekhov

Follow the rule persistently: so that words are cramped and thoughts are spacious. / ON THE. Nekrasov

Everywhere literature is valued not because of its most vile examples, but because of those outstanding figures who lead society forward. / M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin

There is nothing sedimentary or crystalline in the Russian language; everything excites, breathes, lives. / A. S. Khomyakov

Before you is a community - the Russian language! / Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious. / A. I. Kuprin

Language is a ford across the river of time, it leads us to the home of the departed; but no one who is afraid of deep water will be able to come there. / V. M. Illich-Svitych

The greatest wealth of a people is its language! For thousands of years, countless treasures of human thought and experience accumulate and live forever in the word. / Soviet writer M. A. Sholokhov

Words must be handled honestly. / Outstanding Slavic writer N.V. Gogol

The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich, and everything is being enriched with amazing speed. / Soviet author Maxim Gorky

The richer the language is in expressions and turns of phrase, the better for a skilled writer. / Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

Beware of refined language. The language should be simple and elegant. / Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Language, our magnificent language. There is expanse of river and steppe in it, In it are the screams of an eagle and the roar of a wolf, The chanting, and the ringing, and the incense of pilgrimage. / Konstanti Dmitrievich Balmont

Language is the history of the people. Language is the path of civilization and culture. That is why learning and preserving the Russian language is not an idle hobby with nothing to do, but an urgent necessity. / A. Kuprin

The language of a people is the best, never fading and ever-blooming flower of their entire spiritual life. / K.D. Ushinsky

The Russian language is quite rich, however, it has its drawbacks, and one of them is hissing sound combinations: -vsha, -vshi, -vshu, -shcha, -shchi. On the first page of your story, “lice” crawls in large numbers: those who worked, those who spoke, those who arrived. It is quite possible to do without insects. / Maxim Gorky wrote this, mentoring the young author

Charles V, the Roman Emperor, used to say that it is proper to speak in Spanish with God, in French with friends, in German with the enemy, and in Italian with the female sex. But if he knew Russian, then of course he would have added that it is decent for them to speak to everyone, because... I would find in it the splendor of Spanish, and the liveliness of French, and the strength of German, and the tenderness of Italian, and the richness and strong figurativeness of Latin and Greek. / Famous scientist Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov

Who doesn't know foreign languages, he has no idea about his own. / German writer I. Goethe

No matter what you say, your native language will always remain native. When you want to speak to your heart’s content, not a single French word comes to mind, but if you want to shine, then it’s a different matter. / Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Russian language is the language of poetry. The Russian language is unusually rich in versatility and subtlety of shades. / French writer Prosper Merimee

Where there are few words, they have weight. / English playwright William Shakespeare

True words are not graceful, graceful words are not true. / Chinese sage Lao Tzu

The word belongs half to the one who speaks and half to the one who listens. / French writer and philosopher M. Montaigne

The word is a great thing. Great because with a word you can unite people, with a word you can separate them, with a word you can serve love, but with a word you can serve enmity and hatred. Beware of such a word that divides people. / Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

You can do wonders with the Russian language! / K.G. Paustovsky

Russian language! For millennia, the people created this flexible, lush, inexhaustibly rich, intelligent poetic... instrument of their social life, their thoughts, their feelings, their hopes, their anger, their great future... With a wondrous ligature the people wove the invisible network of the Russian language: bright as a rainbow after the spring rain , sharp as arrows, sincere as a song over a cradle, melodious... The dense world, over which he threw the magic net of words, submitted to him like a bridled horse. / A.N. Tolstoy

The trouble with other literature is that thinking people do not write, and those who write do not think. / P. A. Vyazemsky

Dissonant and ugly words should be avoided. I don’t like words with a lot of whistling and hissing sounds, I try to avoid them. / Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The old syllable attracts me. There is charm in ancient speech. It can be more modern and sharper than our words. / Russian poetess Bella Akhmadulina

Russian literature should not stoop to the level of society in its dubious and dark manifestations. In any circumstances, by all means, literature should not deviate a single step from its main goal - to elevate society to an ideal - the ideal of goodness, light and truth. / ON THE. Nekrasov

The word of a Briton will echo with heartfelt knowledge and wise knowledge of life; The short-lived word of the Frenchman will flash and scatter like a light dandy; the German will intricately come up with his own clever and thin word, which is not accessible to everyone; but there is no word that would be so sweeping, lively, so bursting out from under the very heart, so seething and vibrantly trembling, like a well-spoken Russian word. / Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language is a treasure, this is an asset passed on to us by our predecessors! Handle this powerful tool with respect; in skillful hands it is capable of performing miracles. / Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Many Russian words themselves emit poetry, just as precious stones emit a mysterious shine... / K. G. Paustovsky

Take care of the purity of your language as a sacred thing! Never use foreign words. The Russian language is so rich and flexible that we have nothing to take from those who are poorer than us. / Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Strive to enrich the mind and beautify the Russian word. / M. V. Lomonosov

Tongue and gold are our dagger and poison. / Mikhail Yurjevich Lermontov

Reading is the best teaching! / Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

Compiled by Tatyana Molchanova