August 26th, 2012 at 5:48AM
Talk can never be anything but futile unless both speaker and listener really understand what is being said, and one has only to open a newspaper or popular magazine, or listen to a sermon or a political speech, to realize that such understanding is extremely rare. Language and understanding are alike vague, and as long as this is the case, talk will remain a hindrance to right action rather than a help. —

W.H. Auden, “The Teaching of English” (via invisibleforeigner)

Yup. Communication is hard.

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