Language has been called an instrument, a tool, an art, a symphony, a game, a city, a social force, a force for humanization. 

 

Roland Barthes called it a skin, 

 

Anthony Burgess ‘a mouthful of air.’

 

 For Ralph Waldo Emerson it was both ‘fossil poetry’ and the ‘archives of history’.

 

 For Max Müller 'the autobiography of the human mind’.

 

 For Martin Heidegger, it was 'the house of being’.”

 

 

— “Just a Phrase I’m Going Through: My
Life in Language -