God formed the universe by His Word and God continues to reform our lives when we listen to His voice. But, I also know the limits of the spoken word. God's Word does what it is suppose to. It is successful, and achieves the desired results. Human words, however, are fallible, inadequate.
Language is instrumental in forming our perceptions of reality.
But language, alone, is weak when compared with music. The unity of existence that the word constantly breaks up, dividing thing from thing, subject from object, is constantly restored in music. Music prevents the world from being entirely transformed into language, from becoming nothing but object, and prevents man from becoming but subject. Words do divide. We use words to analyze, to rip apart, to dissect.