To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees An Aphorism by Paul Valéry www.goodreads.com Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One SeesThe Gifted Listener: Composer Aaron Copland on Honing Your Talent for Listening to Music seeing
This language without words There must be a language that doesn't depend on words, the boy thought. I've already had that experience with my sheep, and now it's happening with people. He was learning a lot of new things. Some of them were things that he had already experienced, and weren't really new, but that he had never perceived before. And he hadn't perceived them because he had become accustomed to them. He realized: If I can learn to understand the language without words, I can learn to understand the world. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist The quality without a name language