Days [ ) Desire | Roland Barthes, 1977

“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other.
It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words.
My language trembles with desire.”

Roland Barthes, “Talking,” in A Lover’s Discourse, 1977 

Also:
Persons [ ] Language is never innocent | Roland Barthes, 1915-80
Alphabetarion # Hallucination | Roland Barthes, 1980
Alphabetarion # Perversion | Roland Barthes, 1977