Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.
Patricia A. McKillipTags: words language meaning inadequacy-of-words
The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.
Italo CalvinoTags: writing literature language inadequacy-of-words dictionary
For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
Aldous HuxleyTags: language inadequacy-of-words communicate
If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.
Edward HopperTags: art power-of-words self-expression painting inadequacy-of-words
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
RumiTags: words soul language rumi turkey pretext inadequacy-of-words bond celaleddin inner mawlana mawlana-jalal-al-din-rumi mevlana structuralism türkiye
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
Theodore DreiserTags: words writing inadequacy-of-words
In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.
Jodi PicoultTags: loss language mourning child english lose inadequacy-of-words parent
People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
William FaulknerTags: words sin salvation inadequacy-of-words
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