...language is inherited from the dead and yet again and again it is ‘recovered’—meaning to regain control, to repossess, to create again, or to conceal again--by the living. So words are simultaneously old and new. Their universe is ‘version’--in the sense of transformation--and version indicates passage, direction, action, movement.
[from M. Catherine de Zegher, "Ouvrage: Knot a Not, Notes as Knots," on the poetry of Cecilia Vicuña]