Crude Quote by Henry Miller
“Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions, are but crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain and sorrow to commemorate an event which is untransmissible.”
About This Quote
Source Essay: "The Art of Fiction", 1940s
Poetry and dreams are painful symbols carved from sorrow, trying to capture the ineffable.
In simple terms: Art translates pain into symbols.
Create from suffering.
Themes
Mood
Type
When to use this quote
- writing
- visual art
- music
- therapy
- storytelling
Key Concepts
Questions to Reflect On
- What emotions are you trying to encode?
- Do symbols help or hinder understanding?
Symbols can never fully convey the original feeling.