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- The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result… — Italo Calvino
- One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions. — Salman Rushdie
- World power means nothing. Only the unsayable, jeweled inner life matters. — Rumi
- Words cannot express as music does, that unsayable grace which cannot be defined. It leaps like light from mind to mind. — Gwen Harwood
- To all that is used-up, and to all the muffled and dumb creatures in the world's full reserve, the unsayable sums, joyfully… — Rainer Maria Rilke
- The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays… — Max Beckmann
- More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life. — Rainer Maria Rilke
- Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change… — Jonathan Sacks
- Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a… — Rainer Maria Rilke
- One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed… — John O'Donohue
- It takes a child to say the unsayable. — Nick Hornby
- Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable... The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated. It's too… — Marie Howe