Limitations of Language 5
Language is a detriment, an earthbound limitation from which the poet suffers more than anyone else. At times he can actually hate it, denounce it, and execrate it—or rather hate himself for being born to work with this miserable instrument. He thinks with envy of the painter whose language—color—is instantly comprehensible to everyone from the North Pole to Africa; or of the musician whose notes also speak in every human tongue and who commands so many new, individual, subtly differentiated languages.
—Hermann Hesse
Pablo Picasso, speaking with his friend Brassaï (aka Gyula Halász)—the photographer nicknamed “the eye of Paris”—commented, “When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the ...
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