
inarticulable knowledge

A searchable directory of words that don't translate.
Steph Smith • Eunoia: Words that Don't Translate
For the past few days, in fact, I have begun to feel that the story I am trying to tell is somehow incompatible with language, that the degree to which it resists language is an exact measure of how closely I have come to saying something important, and that when the moment arrives for me to say the one truly important thing (assuming it exists), I
... See morePaul Auster • The Invention of Solitude
“Practicing music – practicing anything we really love – we are always at the limit of words, striving for something just beyond our ability to express.”
Nehemia Polen • Stop, Look, Listen: Celebrating Shabbos through a Spiritual Lens
Photography, he thought, was also a kind of translation, and they had all come out the poorer for