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• Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.

  T. S. Eliot

  New Beginnings, Feelings, Trying

  East Coker (1940) pt. 5

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• I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.

  Virginia Woolf

  Feet, Long, Broken

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.176, Virginia Woolf

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• As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do the trick.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Awkward, Advantage, Tricks

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• ¡Oh, cómo desea uno a veces escapar de la insulsez sin sentido de la elocuencia humana, de todas esas frases sublimes, refugiarse en la naturaleza, aparentemente tan inarticulada, o en la falta de palabras de un trabajo largo y agotador, del sueño profundo, de la música verdadera, o de un entendimiento humano enmudecido por la emoción!

  Boris Pasternak

  Sueño, Largo, Comprensión

  Roger Martin du Gard, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Gabriela Mistral (1971). "Roger Martin du Gard Gabriela Mistral ; Boris Pasternak".

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• Eres tan amable, Kazuhiko. Eso es lo que me gusta de ti". Tú también me gustas. Te quiero mucho." Si no fuera tan inarticulado, Kazuhiko podría haber dicho mucho más. Cuánto significaba para él su expresión, su dulzura, su alma pura e inmaculada. En resumen, lo importante que era su existencia para él. Pero no era capaz de expresarlo con palabras. Sólo era un estudiante de tercero de secundaria y, lo que era peor, composición era una de sus peores asignaturas.

  Koushun Takami

  I Like You, Love You, Expression

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• They ended every speech with the word hiro, which means: like I said. Thus each man took responsibility for intruding into the inarticulate murmur of the spheres. To hiro they added the word koue, a cry of joy or distress, according to whether it was sung or howled. Thus they essayed to piece the mysterious curtain which hangs between all talking men: at the end of every utterance a man stepped back, so to speak, and attempted to interpret his words to the listener, attempted to subvert the beguiling intellect with the noise of true emotion.

  Leonard Cohen

  Mean, Responsibility, Men

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• She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need for imperishable bliss." Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires. Is there no change of death in paradise? Does ripe fruit never fall? or do the boughs Hang always heavy in that perfect sky, Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth, With rivers like our own that seek for seas They never find, the same receding shores That never touch with inarticulate pang?

  Wallace Stevens

  Death, Mother, Dream

  Wallace Stevens, “Sunday Morning”

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• ¿Argh? Patético e inarticulado. Buena combinación. Vuestras madres deben estar muy orgullosas.

  Eoin Colfer

  Mother, Nice, Proud

  Eoin Colfer (2003). “Artemis Fowl”, Miramax

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• The problem with love and God, the two of them, is how to say anything about them that doesn’t annihilate them instantly with the wrong words, with untruth. . . . In this sense, love and God are equivalents. We feel both, but because we cannot speak clearly about them, we end up–wordless, inarticulate—by denying their existence altogether, and, pfffffft, they die.

  Charles Baxter

  Two, Say Anything, Problem

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.77, Vintage

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• Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Sound, Want

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• I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

  Stephen King

  Writing, School, People

  "The Stephen King interview, uncut and unpublished". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2000.

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• Violet said nothing, though big pearly tears, like a child's, trembled at her lashes. She suddenly missed John very much. Into him she could pour all the inarticulate perceptions, all the knowings and unknowings she felt, which, though he couldn't understand them really, he would receive reverently, and out of him would come then the advice, the warnings, the clever decisions she could never have made.

  John Crowley

  Clever, Children, Knowing

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• Quiero amarte salvajemente. No quiero palabras, sino gritos inarticulados, sin sentido, desde el fondo de mi ser más primitivo, que broten de mi vientre como la miel. Una alegría desgarradora, que me deja vacía, conquistada, silenciada.

  Anais Nin

  Love You, Joy, Piercings

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• People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

  William Trevor

  Writing, People, Articulation

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• Con el tiempo he aprendido a deambular por los arrecifes de coral, a seis o siete metros bajo el agua, tan despreocupadamente que puedo prestar atención a cosas concretas. Pero después de haber disipado todos mis tontos temores, incluso ahora, con los ojos rebosantes de color, sigo siendo casi inarticulado. Necesitamos todo un nuevo vocabulario, nuevos adjetivos, adecuados para describir los diseños y colores de bajo el mar.

  William Beebe

  Océano, Tonto, Ojo

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• 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 leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Music, Song, Speech

  Thomas Carlyle (1846). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.74

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• 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 and again to say, 'It is yet more difficult than you thought.' It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.

  Wendell Berry

  Real, Inspiration, Journey

  "Poetry and Marriage: The Use of Old Forms". 1982.

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• Lo que pasa por amor es un conocimiento imperfecto. Al principio, el desconocimiento permite que la falta de fe se disfrace de lo contrario, que el inarticulado se convierta en enigmático, el egoísta en olvidadizo y el enfadado en apasionado.

  Nick Laird

  Selfish, Love Is, Opposites

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• La música es el discurso inarticulado del corazón, que no puede comprimirse en palabras, porque es infinito.

  Richard Wagner

  Heart, Thinking, Speech

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• 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, then he might have become an excellent painter-decorator, and received a big turn out at his funeral, and that would be that. But the genes wouldn't let him.

  Declan Lynch

  Civilization, Funeral, Would Be

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• 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 dancing on religious grounds.

  Jamake Highwater

  Dance, Religious, White

  Jamake Highwater (1992). “Dance: Rituals of Experience”, p.61, Oxford University Press, USA

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• . . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Love, Flower, Animal

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1963). "Cuentos reunidos"

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• 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, heard only with the soul, and I realize I brought it with me, was never taught it nor can I efficiently teach it to another.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Soul, Solitude, Taught

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• 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 is a great suffering, and is especially so to anyone who has a certain knack for poetry.

  Richard Wilbur

  Thinking, Order, Suffering

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• Los escritores son idolatrados no porque amen a sus semejantes, lo que nunca es una recomendación y en casos extremos conduce a la crucifixión, sino porque su amor propio está en sintonía con los temores y deseos actuales, y al darle expresión hablan en nombre de una multitud inarticulada.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Amor Es, Hombres, Yo

  Hugh Kingsmill (1949). "El progreso de un biógrafo"

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