ineffability feels like that ache when something inside you moves too deeply to name. like when you stare at the sea and feel it breathing with you, but you can’t tell if it’s sadness or peace. it’s the moment your chest tightens but no words come out — not because you don’t know what to say, but because what you feel doesn’t belong to language.
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... See moreThe way a dream, untold, vanishes, never having taken place to begin with.
Sally Rooney • Intermezzo: The global #1 bestseller from the author of Normal People
Like a dream, a poem is an other-space where imagination is unbound. Like a question, a poem supposes uncertainty. Some dreams, and perhaps some poems, inspire us to act. In Muse & Drudge , I wrote, “I dream a world / and then what.”