Quarks and electrons

Everything in the universe is made up of quarks and electrons.  There is nothing else.  Apart from exotic laws that defy reason.  And waves.  But not empty space.  There is no such thing as empty space (it is filled with the above).

Language is mere poetry in the description of atoms (I paraphrase here).

It is a collection of atoms, me, that is saying this.  These are the same atoms that make up you, and the object through which you are reading and seeing this.