when björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw… oh how right she was
intense effort to express and connect is inherently limited by the boundaries of language itself, highlighting its insufficiency.
“Well, we use words to communicate, right? Still, most of our words don’t actually get across. You know what I mean? Well, our words might, but not what we’re actually trying to say. That’s what we’re always dealing with. We live in this place, in this world, where we can share our words but not our thoughts.
Mieko Kawakami • Breasts and Eggs
“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King