Reading and Language

Just as most of what happens to us dissolves, becomes part of an inner compost known in generalized terms—“my high school years,” “boot camp,” and so on—so most of what we have read loses definition and becomes a blurry wash.
Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
Words are an attempt to condense the electricity of one mind into the shared/stagnant/dead medium of language, so that another mind can hold it and reenact the electricity that created it.
Even if you don’t understand words. Understand that they sometimes just need somewhere to go.
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Louis Menand • Can Poetry Change Your Life?
I don’t think I read enough to justify writing. But I am tired of consuming. I think I have something to say.
But some things were too big to be really trapped in words, and even the words were too powerful to be completely tamed by writing.