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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.”

Children Made Said Bigs Felt Decision Knowing Advice Tears Perception Clever Warning Violet Lashes Inarticulate Unknowing

Author:John Crowley

“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”

Desire Daily Life Inarticulate

Book:A moment's liberty: the shorter diary

Source: A moment's liberty: the shorter diary

“I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.”

Want Joy Love You Cry Flow Empty Bottom Honey Meaningless Primitive Belly Leaving Me Piercings Inarticulate I Want To Love You

Author:Anais Nin

“. . . 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.”

Love Has Beens Earth House Names Natural Animal Tree Sky Special Fields Identity Flower Creatures Bird Endure Woods Grass Kinship Natural Things Inarticulate Earth And Sky

Book:Collected Stories

Source: Collected Stories

“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 deeper and deeper.”

Ifs Spirit Grows Prayer Holy Deeper Holy Spirit Rely Reverence Our Prayers Inarticulate

Book:If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer

Source: If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer

“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. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.”

Firsts Kind Lasts Difficult Party Steps Silent Drunk Glorious Ladders Invitations Stumbling Inarticulate Party Invitations

Author:Lord Byron

“Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.”

Growth Sun Sky Garden Blue Thread Insects Bugs Inarticulate Dragonflies

Author:Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.”

Inspirational Inspiration Funny Political Politics Journalism Gore Bushism Unclear Inarticulate Funny Political Effective Communication

Author: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, 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.”

Soul Sometimes Speak Language Realizing Teach Heard Taught Solitude Originals Clarity Freshness Inarticulate

Author: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.”

Years Duty Theater Sacred Ireland Playwright Inarticulate

Book:Tynan on theatre

Source: Tynan on theatre

“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 peasant.”

Sometimes Seems Share Quiet Dogma Sophisticated Persecution Peasants Inarticulate Poignancy

Book:Save Me the Waltz: A Novel

Source: Save Me the Waltz: A Novel

“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.”

Ifs Thinking World Feels Certain Suffering Order Ability Knack Inarticulate

Author: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 scientists.”

Political Purpose Poor Power Advice Identity Weak Organization Scientist Glitter Inarticulate

Author: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 self-love is in tune with current fears and desires, and in giving it expression they are speaking for an inarticulate multitude.”

Men Giving Self Desire Love Is Expression Self Love Fellows Currents Extremes Instance Tunes Multitudes Fellow Man Crucifixion Recommendations Inarticulate Idolized

Book:The progress of a biographer

Source: The progress of a biographer

“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 forever. Feeble, inarticulate will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth and may it burn their lousy souls.”

Men Want May War Soul Fighting Forever He Man Goes On Messages Bitter Messengers Inarticulate Wwi Bitter Truth

Author: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 dancing on religious grounds.”

Persons Body Black Religious White Behinds Century Performances Dancing Dance Dull Dancer Comparison Astonishing Condemnation Inarticulate

Book:Dance: Rituals of Experience

Source: Dance: Rituals of Experience

“Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.”

Feelings Mess Venture Equipment New Beginnings Quartets Shabby Inarticulate Deteriorating

Author:T. S. Eliot

“My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests.”

People Running Interest Forget Advantage Reporters Inarticulate

Author:Joan Didion

“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.”

Ifs Has Beens Bigs Might Would Be Able Turns Behinds Genius Civilization Majors Painter Excellent Funeral Genes Vans Neighbour Inarticulate Decorators

Author:Declan Lynch

“Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.”

Thinking Heart Speech Music Is Infinite Inarticulate

Author: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 as forgetful, the angry as impassioned.”

Love Is Knowing Opposites Dresses Angry Casts Selfish Imperfect Not Knowing Forgetful Inarticulate Enigmatic Impassioned

Author: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 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.”

Knows Way Giving May Two Real Inspiration Seems Desire Difficult Vision Journey Return Realization Again And Again Muse Real Work Inarticulate Which Way To Go

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

Kind Moments Song Music Effects Speech Infinite Edges Logical Unfathomable Inarticulate

Book:On heroes, hero-worship, & the heroic in history: six lectures ; reported, with emendations and additions

Source: On heroes, hero-worship, & the heroic in history: six lectures ; reported, with emendations and additions

“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 attention to particular definite things. But after all my silly fears have been allayed, even now, with eyes overflowing with surfeit of color, I am still almost inarticulate. We need a whole new vocabulary, new adjectives, adequately to describe the designs and colors of under sea.”

“For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.”

Self Sometimes States Reason Done Science Rooms Views Expression Scientist Conclusion Motive Smoking Void Self Expression Cigar Inarticulate Smoking Cigars

Book:Rudyard Kipling: The Complete Verse

Source: Rudyard Kipling: The Complete Verse

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

People Writing Like Me Articulation Inarticulate

Author:William Trevor

“As a novelist, I suppose I can say that I'm highly articulate. But I know, as a person, in other ways, I'm not always articulate. I think we are all, from time to time, inarticulate, at some level, about some things.”

Thinking Knows Way Persons I Can Levels Novelists Inarticulate

Author:Graham Swift

“Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.”

Made Force Environment Decent Crushed Inarticulate

Author:Agnes Smedley

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