JHuckcashstack,

"Language is centered on social goals and virtues that keep us from killing each other by saying exactly what we think."
-Richard Ballard

Yes I think it’s true, but limited. You could as easily say that language binds us together and w/o it we would be seriously fucked.

I prefer my poem, a paraphrase and condensation of a Flaubert passage:

Language is
a cracked kettle

we beat out
tunes for bears
to dance to

while all the time
we long to move
the stars to pity.

"If they know my work, they don't need my C.V.," he said. "If they need my C.V., they don't know my work."