海倫·凱勒 Helen Keller(1880 – 1968): The Story of My Life, 1905.

Helen Keller portrait, 1904.

I stood still, my whole attention fixed upon the motions of her(Anne Sullivan 1866-1936) fingers.

Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness as of something forgotten — a thrill of returning thought; and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that w-a-t-e-r meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand.

The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, set it free!