We are always referred back to language as actually expressing an idea, when, as a matter of fact, language expresses nothing but that which its vital parallel means of expression, gesture and facial expression, permit it to express.

Words mean nothing whatsoever in themselves; the same words in different languages mean wholly different things; for written words are mere symbols, and no more express things or ideas than any marks on paper would.

Yet language is forever striving to emulate music by actually expressing something, besides merely symbolising it, and thus we have in poetry the coining of onomatopoetic words--words that will bring the things they stand for more vividly before our eyes and minds.

Now music may express all that words can express and much more, for it is the natural means of expression for all animals, mankind included.

If musical sounds were accepted as symbols for things we would have another speech.