Unwordable Quotes

#1. I don't analyze beautiful. I sit in its presence and love the wholeness of it--the sweet and sad and raw and bright together.
Poetry is that, the weaving of light-shadow. Making words from the unwordable.

Jacob Nordby

#2. With poetry and writing, the question isn't "do you know the right words?".
The real question is, "can you make words from the unwordable, chisel blocks of raw silence into shapes and touch our souls?

Jacob Nordby

#3. It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence.

Emily Carr

#4. Of all the millions of refugees we've seen in the modern world, their flight is always away from, not toward, the Communist world.

Ronald Reagan

#5. Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.

Malin Akerman

#6. All Buddhas and ordinary people are just one mind. This mind is beyond all measurements, names, oppositions: this very being is it; as soon as you stir your mind you turn away from it.

Huangbo Xiyun

#7. Making knots. Making knots. No word. Making knots. Tick-tock. This is a clock. Do not think of Gale. Do not think of Peeta. Making knots.

Suzanne Collins

#8. Tell yourself you're dead, the way Matt does, so the past can't hurt you.

Ilsa J. Bick

#9. I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant.

Edna O'Brien