"The whole of language is a continuous process of metaphor, and the history of semantics is an aspect of the history of culture; language is at the same time a living thing and a museum of fossils of life and civilisations."
Antonio Gramsci was an Italian Marxist philosopher and political theorist. He was born on 1891-01-22 and died on 1937-04-27. He is widely known for the Prison Notebooks and the concept of cultural hegemony.