mothwood:

Language is name. The power of language is enclosed in the name; the abyss of language is sealed within it. Now that we have invoked the ancient names day after day, we can no longer hold off the forces they contain. Once awakened, they will appear, for we have summoned them with terrible violence… we speak a vestigial, ghostly language…The names haunt our phrases; writers and journalists play with them, pretending to believe or to make God believe that all this is really not important. And yet, out of the spectral degradation of our language, the force of the holy often speaks to us. For the names have a life of their own…

Gershom Scholem on the Hebrew language (trans.Ora Wiskind) from On Our Language: A Confession  

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