Another's Take on Language

According to “The Writer's Almanac” today, William H. Gass, an essayist and novelist born 30 July 1924, once wrote, "[Language] is not the lowborn, gawky servant of thought and feeling; it is need, thought, feeling, and perception itself. The shape of sentences, the song in its syllables, the rhythm of its movement, is the movement of the imagination." Just think of the power language has for the speaker or writer, all of that before meaning is even considered.