“Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. ”

“The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.”

“I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of things.”

“Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.”

“How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.”

“The full meaning of a language is never translatable into another. We may speak several languages but one of them always remains the one in which we live. In order completely to assimilate a language it would be necessary to make the world which it expresses one's own and one never does belong to two worlds at once.”