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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
Music
Silence
Inexpressible
After
Which
Expressing
Nearest
This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
T. E. Lawrence
Words
Thought
Indeed
Seemed
Inexpressible
Desert
Creed
Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.
Charles Munch
Music
Art
Intelligence
Words
Define
Above
Rises
Unconscious
Inexpressible
Domain
Mean
Land
Far
Expresses
What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth?
Italo Calvino
Art
Add
Earth
Solemn
Would
Attempt
Most
Pile
Nonsense
Inexpressible
Pinpoint
Modern
Modern Art
Sensations
Appeared
Ever
Vague
Five decades ago, as India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, began visibly ailing, the nation and the world were consumed by the question: 'After Nehru, who?' The inexpressible fear lay in the subtext to the question: 'After Nehru, what?'
Shashi Tharoor
World
Fear
First
Nation
Visibly
Minister
India
Lay
Consumed
Prime
Prime Minister
Were
Inexpressible
Question
Began
Five
Decades
Subtext
After
Who
For me, music is about expressing the inexpressible, and as I get older, man, what I feel the need to express becomes less and less poignant to others.
Devin Townsend
Music
Me
Man
Older
Others
About
Poignant
Feel
Becomes
Inexpressible
Get
Less
Express
Expressing
Older Man
Need
Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.
Meghan O'Rourke
Grief
Experience
Once
Private
Inexpressible
Persona
Cannot
Public
Realized
Fully
Inner
Disruption
Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible.
Nick Flynn
Job
Our
Tell
Seems
Writers
Attempt
Inexpressible
As Far As
Far
Express
I think poetry is as old as language, and both come out of the same thing - an effort to try to express something that is inexpressible.
W. S. Merwin
Try
Old
Language
Same Thing
Think
Out
Something
Both
Poetry
Come
Inexpressible
Effort
Same
Express
Thing