"If our auditory imaginations were sufficiently tuned to plumb and sound a vowel, to unite the most primitive and civilized associations, the word 'undine' would probably suffice as a poem in itself." Seamus Heaney
Friday, March 27, 2009
Quote: Walter Benjamin
"There is no event or thing in either animate or inanimate nature that does not in some way partake of language ... "
from 'On Language as Such and on the Language of Man', 1916
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