Below is a quote by Giambattista Vico which helps me understand how language and arts came together with civilization at the same time which will never happen again.
"Poetry, which was the first form of wisdom, began with a system of thought, not seasoned or abstract, as ours is now, but felt and imagined, as was the case in those primitive human beings who had developed no reasoning faculties, but were all made up of senses in the highest physical perfection, and of the most vigorous imagination. In their total ignorance of causes they wondered at everything, and their poetry was divine, because ascribed to gods the objects of their wonder, and thought that beings like themselves but greater could alone have caused them. Thus they were like children, whom notice taking into their hands inanimate things, and playing and talking with them as though they were living persons. When thunder terrified them, they attributed their own nature to the phenomenon; and being apt to express their more violent passions by howls and roarings, they conceived heaven as a vast body, which gave notice of its anger by lightning and thundering. The whole of nature in like manner, they imagined to be a vast animated body, capable of feeling and passion."
Giambattista Vicco Della Metafisica Poetica
