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Quotes Tagged "inadequacy-of-words"

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.
— Italo Calvino
Tags: writing, literature, language, inadequacy-of-words, dictionary
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.  Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
— Theodore Dreiser
Tags: writing, words, inadequacy-of-words
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