Unspeakability Quotes

“It makes you crazy, for something you know to be true, know from the very core or root of you, to remain unspeakable.”
― Mark Doty, What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life

“Some things on this earth are unspeakable:
Genealogy of the broken—
A shy wind threading leaves after a massacre,
Or the smell of coffee and no one there—”
― Joy Harjo, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems