Heidegger - Language itself Speaks

But then does language itself speak?  How should it manage to do so, when it is not even equipped with the instruments of voice?  Nevertheless, it is language that speaks.  What language properly pursues, right from the start is the essential unfolding of speech, of saying.  Language speaks by saying; that is by showing.  Its saying wells up from the once spoken yet long since unspoken saying that permeates the rift-design* in the essence of language.  Language speaks by pointing, reaching out to every region of presencing, letting what is present in each case appear in such regions or vanish from them.



*The unity in the essence of language, the drawing of the essence of language, the well-joined structure of a showing, enjoining speakers and speech, the spoken and unspoken.


-The Way to Language
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