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My words fly up, my thoughts remain below
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.
Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
God is gracious beyond the power of language to describe.
There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power.