björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
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björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
“Compared with music all communication by words is shameless; words dilute and brutalise; words depersonalise; words make the uncommon common.”
― Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
― Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
Iain McGilchrist Quotes (Author of The Master and His Emissary)
we describe our feelings in an approximate fashion but no words can describe a feeling. In the realm of language, what I speak about is that which has been most often overlooked.
Gilbert Schultz • Self Aware
We live in this place, in this world, where we can share our words but not our thoughts.
In Mieko Kawakami’s “Breasts and Eggs,” Oppression and Dissent Begin at Women’s Bodies - Words Without Borders
as if anything that came out of language could make language tremble.”
Maggie Nelson • The Argonauts
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” What