Limiting the World

"God created heaven and earth. But one should be able to put it better. To say that the limits of language, of my language are those of the world, of my world. And that in speaking, I limit the world, I end it. And when mysterious, logical death abolishes these limits there will be no question, no answer, just vagueness. But if things come into focus again this can only be through the rebirth of conscience. Everything follows from this. I don't know where or when, just that it happened"

-anonymous

Qualities

Words give glass quality to glass, blood to blood and life to life itself

-Pablo Neruda

Living Creatures

The words of a living language are like creatures; they are alive. Each word has a physical character, a look and a personality, an ancestry, an expectation of life and death, a hope of posterity

-Morris Bishop