the unutterable

“Things aren’t all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered…”

–Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, Letter One

“for ultimately, and precisely in the deepest and most important matters, we are unspeakably alone”

–Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, Letter Two

“Dissatisfied with everyone and dissatisfied with myself, I long to redeem myself and take pride in myself in the silence and solitude of the night.”

–Charles Baudelaire, “A Une Heure du Matin”

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