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The most profound things are inexpressible.
Jenny Holzer / Artist
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe / Writer
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
T. E. Lawrence / Military Officer
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley / Writer
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Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible.
Nick Flynn / Writer
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
Umberto Eco / Essayist
Again And Again
People
Work People Will
Homer
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One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
Gustave Flaubert / Writer
Life
Abyss
Bottom
Charm
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Attracts
Look
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I think poetry is as old as language, and both come out of the same thing - an effort to try to express something that is inexpressible.
W. S. Merwin / Poet
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Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.
Meghan O'rourke / Poet
Disruption
Grief
Persona
Fully
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Inner
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For me, music is about expressing the inexpressible, and as I get older, man, what I feel the need to express becomes less and less poignant to others.
Devin Townsend / Musician
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Music Man Me
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Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.
Dinah Maria Mulock /
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Safe
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Feeling
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Lamantia is faith building, encouraging poetry in that it abstractly hugs you by finally capturing the inexpressible. It's an experience similar to relief, reading his poems.
Weyes Blood /
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Reading
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Capturing
Finally
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There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.
David Bowie / Musician
Chords
Jolly
Words
Along
Always Me Words
Any
Been
Me Words Way
Say
Expressing
Me Way Always
Means
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Other
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Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.
Charles Munch /
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What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth?
Italo Calvino / Journalist
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Modern Art
Nonsense
Sensations
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Appeared
Attempt
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In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love.
Erica Jong / Author
Loss
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Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.
Johann Georg Hamann / Philosopher
Community
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Energy
Ideas
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Pledge
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Woe to the generation of sons who find their censers empty of the rich incense of prayer, whose fathers have been too busy or too unbelieving to pray, and perils inexpressible and consequences untold are their unhappy heritage.
Edward Mckendree Bounds / Author
Busy
Empty
Heritage
Incense
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Woe
Pray
Fathers
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Five decades ago, as India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, began visibly ailing, the nation and the world were consumed by the question: 'After Nehru, who?' The inexpressible fear lay in the subtext to the question: 'After Nehru, what?'
Shashi Tharoor / Author
Consumed
Decades
Prime
Prime Minister
Subtext
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Lay
Minister
Visibly
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Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his vision; and however vivid and skilful he may be in the means of expression, yet it is frequently found that the master-spell in his work is something felt to be indefinable and inexpressible.
George Edward Woodberry / Literary Critic
Art
Indefinable
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Powerful
Subtle
Vision
Art Work Experience
Expressed
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At moments of acute joy or sorrow, men and women throughout history have sung or reached for musical instruments to express the inexpressible. When minds are taut with emotional entanglement, there seems to be an inner compulsive instinct to release and harness this tension through the measured vibrations in the air that we call music.
Stephen Hough /
Harness
Instinct
Instruments
Men And Women
Release
Sorrow
Tension
Vibrations
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History Women Men
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