unexplainable

“words do not matter, because meaning is often felt, not said.”

“You’re probably wondering what we’re trying to do. It’s hard to say. We hope that we have something here... We’ve been working quite hard at it. We hope you can dig it.

To describe it any further would be difficult without sounding like bullshit.”

- Rolling Stone, Vol. 1, No. 1

"How to clarify a concept you can't articulate:
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1. Change mediums. Draw it. Photograph it. Sing it.
2. Change levels. Explain what is one level up (bigger picture) or one level down (finer details).
3. Change fields. What would this concept look like in different fields?"

(James Clear newsletter)

any classification seems to understate what it is

“I think 90 percent of what/who we are is never really verbally communicated....”

― Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life

“It is ironic that I was never categorizable and now I’m a category.”

Jimmy Buffett

“I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.”

― Jack Gilbert, The Great Fires

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”

―Franz Kafka

Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described.

Notes on Camp, Susan Sontag.

“It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.”

― Anthony Doerr