Inexpressible Truth Quotes

Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.

I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichés, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall. We can only hover around the inexpressible with our words anyway, and there is comfort in saying what we have heard before.

Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.

For some moments in life there are no words.

Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way.

It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words.

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.

The most profound things are inexpressible.

I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

The mystic cannot wholly do without symbol and image, inadequate to his vision though they must always be: for his experience must be expressed if it is to be communicated, and its actuality is inexpressible except in some hint or parallel which will stimulate the dormant intuition of the reader.

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

One listens to a piece of great music, say, and feels deeply moved by it, and wants to put this feeling into words, but it can't be put into words. That's what - the music has already supplied the meaning, and words will just be superfluous after that. But it's that kind of verbal meaning that can't be verbalized that I try to get at in poetry.

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.