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Velimir Khlebnikov Quotes

Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.

Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.

Velimir Khlebnikov
Space, Skins, Language
Velimir Khlebnikov, Charlotte Douglas (1990). “The King of Time: Selected Writings of the Russian Futurian”, p.205, Harvard University Press

A child playing with dolls may shed heartfelt tears when his bundle of rags and scraps becomes deathly ill and dies ... So we may come to an understanding of language as playing with dolls: in language, scraps of sound are used to make dolls and replace all the things in the world.

Velimir Khlebnikov
Children, Poetry, Understanding

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