unexplainable
“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
sari added 4mo ago
“I think 90 percent of what/who we are is never really verbally communicated....”
― Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
phoebe added 8mo ago
“It is ironic that I was never categorizable and now I’m a category.”
Jimmy Buffett
sari added 9mo ago
Analogies are a poverty of language
andrea added 10mo ago
- "But maybe you don’t need to be explainable. Maybe the most interesting perspectives come from being willing to occupy a difficult-to-define place, even if it means sacrificing others' understanding of you. The challenge then becomes committing to occupy that place far longer than most feel comfortable — long enough to cultivate a voice out of your... See more
alex added 10mo ago
“words do not matter, because meaning is often felt, not said.”
sari added 3mo ago
- One of the functions of art is to give people the words to know their own experience. There are always areas of vast silence in any culture, and part of an artist’s job is to go into those areas and come back from the silence with something to say. It’s one reason why we read poetry, because poets can give us the words we need. When we read good po... See more
sari added 1y ago
any classification seems to understate what it is
sari added 7mo ago
- George Orwell on politics and the english language: What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing one can do with words is surrender to them. When you think of a concrete object, you think wordlessly, and then, if you want to describe the thing you have been visualizing yo... See more
alex added 1y ago
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
-Jack Kerouac
sari added 10mo ago