Quotes of: Inexpressible Keyword

...for poets, at least, experiencing something inexpressible does not mean silence. It's precisely the inexpressible something that poetry is meant to help us see or feel. If it were merely expressible - if there were nothing ineffable about it - the...

Esther

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The most profound things are inexpressible.

Jenny Holzer

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

T. E. Lawrence

Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

Umberto Eco

You may feel that Peter Martins' 'Beauty' is too compressed and inexpressive, but it's loyal to the text.

Robert Gottlieb

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Music at Night and Other Essays

... novels contained something inexpressibly delicious.

Swann's Way

A writer tries to express those thoughts, which are inexpressible, with beauty and love.

Debasish Mridha

The town itself is disagreeable; but then, all around, you find an inexpressible beauty of nature.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

Gustave Flaubert

All the room darkened and my heart again sank; inexpressible sadness weighed it down

Jane Eyre

There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.

The Goodbye Quilt

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

You will only find the profoundly inexpressible in profound silence.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible.

Nick Flynn

...I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace.

Odd Hours

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

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

Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.

The Silent Teacher: A Beginner's Guide to Meditation