Language and Its Importance

Words are a way of taking your thoughts, the very makeup of yourself and giving them to another. Spoken aloud though, the thought dies quickly if not picked up. There are written texts that have outlived the civilizations that created them. Were the thoughts that first ran through Shakespeare's head ever stop being thought by someone somewhere? Is it any wonder they have been ascribed such power throughout the ages? Or that an old library with heavy tones covering every wall seems to have such a weight to it, beyond the physical presence of the texts it holds?

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