#tongues

How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see. ↗

— Umberto Eco

---

#describing #does #enough #feel #how

There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues. ↗

— Arthur Keith

---

#bewildering #building #cultural #different #difficulties

True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; they hear and see, and sigh, and then they break. ↗

— Edward Dyer

---

#ears #eyes #hear #hearts #see