Dreaming in Hindi Quotes

“We have an oral tradition,” he says. “Therefore, much was put into poetry. Even books of astronomy and medicine. Poetry can be learned swiftly.” English, he observes, has a written tradition, and so “it is informative in nature. Its knowledge is encyclopedic.”
― Katherine Russell Rich, Dreaming In Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language – An Eye-Opening Memoir on Linguistics, Brain Science, and Self-Discovery in India