About the Ancient Greek Language

  "Today we are accustomed to looking at the Greek language in the height, in the classical perfection, that Plato or Sophocles held for us. It is this language that will be an inimitable example of the Language itself, because it combines the two highest possibilities of the term: the sharp borderline and the musicality, that it is equally plastic and intense. In Greek, from the beginning, there was an opportunity to achieve this perfection. The material of the Greek language is most likened to white marble. This stone has that property: a border and music together, hardness and softness, the wholeness of life and spirit, isolation and melting. This is the deep relation between Sophocles and Pheidias; one  with the language carved into perfect figures, the other dramatizes in the statue."

This was translated by Gyula Palatinus