https://medium.com/ill-ixi-lli/on-the-origins-of-language-and-the-recapitulation-of-these-processes-in-children-688612b6e663?source=friends_link&sk=50a7fa45e659ed4d8e69522efae53a1f

“Human language was first emotional, not denotative. First metapoetic, not rational. Our words were like explosions of urgent relation and musical intuition, first. Just as they were… as children. And our minds are founded upon these roots, not, as we imagine, those of discursive thought and categorical sophistication.”