Bernstein 108: "To come to language as a second tongue, to rethink and relearn the world in new and strange sounds, may inhibit a natural or unconscious acceptance of the relation of words to things. It may bring home the artificialness of any language" or drive home a "realization that we can shape, and are shaped by, the words we use"
"language is both continuous and discontinuous with the world, [it is] a thing that for a poet can be as plastic as transparent"
poets are aware of "the translucency that illumines words when they are heard as sound as well as sense"