Inarticulate Quotes

56 quotes by 50 authors

. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love… — Ellen Glasgow
If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows… — Oswald Chambers
Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk.… — Lord Byron
Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images. — Helen Levitt
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things. — George W. Bush
Sometimes during solitude I hear truth spoken with clarity and freshness; uncolored and untranslated it speaks from within myself in a language original but inarticulate,… — Hugh B. Brown
It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness. — Kenneth Tynan
Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the… — Zelda Fitzgerald
I would feel dead if I didn't have the ability periodically to put my world in order with a poem. I think to be inarticulate… — Richard Wilbur
What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political… — Paul Wellstone
Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their… — Hugh Kingsmill
I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting (WWI) to those who want the war to go on… — Paul Nash
White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries of condemnation of… — Jamake Highwater
Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Inarticulate wretches have been behind most of the major advances in civilization. If Vincent Van Gogh had been able to get on with his neighbours,… — Declan Lynch
Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite. — Richard Wagner
What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish… — Nick Laird
There are, it seems, two muses: The Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again… — Wendell Berry
The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which… — Thomas Carlyle
In the course of time I have learned to tramp about coral reefs, twenty to thirty feet under water, so unconcernedly that I can pay… — William Beebe

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