George Edward Woodberry

Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his vision; and however vivid and skilful he may be in the means of expression, yet it is frequently found that the master-spell in his work is something felt to be indefinable and inexpressible.

American Critic

Shashi Tharoor

Five decades ago, as India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, began visibly ailing, the nation and the world were consumed by the question: 'After Nehru, who?' The inexpressible fear lay in the subtext to the question: 'After Nehru, what?

Indian Public Servant

Johann Georg Hamann

Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.

German Philosopher

Erica Jong

In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love.

American Novelist

David Bowie

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

English Musician

Gustave Flaubert

One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

French Novelist

Nick Flynn

Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible.

American Writer

Aldous Huxley

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

English Novelist

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

German Writer

Jenny Holzer

The most profound things are inexpressible.

American Artist

Use 'inexpressible' when feelings are too powerful to describe fully.

Strong Emotions

'Inexpressible' indicates experiences that go beyond what words can convey.

Beyond Words

It's used when a situation is so complex, it's hard to communicate with language.

Complex Situations

 by a twentieth century poet. While her work can be shocking in its rage and trauma, Plath casts her readers as witnesses– not only to the truth of her psychological life, but to her astounding ability to express what often remains inexpressible.