Friday, May 24, 2013

Identity

To change your language,
you must change your life.
--Derek Walcott



Interesting to realize how interconnected the how we live with our words and language. Knowing arcane words or memorizing lists of words won't make them our words, the language of our life.

That language is earned by our day by day walk. I can't simply add words to my language unless I have experienced the working out of that word.

If I say prisoner, then I need to have some experience with what it means to be imprisoned and then what it means to discover the means of release.

Language is so complex, so demanding, so compelling, so able to identify us.

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