“Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. ”
“Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to that of ideas into thoughts.”
“Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language. ”
“The watchers below pulled their breath in all at once. The air suddenly felt shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.”
“Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.”
“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”