“It’s beyond words, there’s no such thing.”

“To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled.”

“Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth…. Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.”

“Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words…By means of art were are sometimes sent - dimly, briefly - revelations unattainable by reason.”

“Things are not as easily understood nor as expressible as people usually would like us to believe. Most happenings are beyond expression; they exist where a word has never intruded.”

“The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.”

“Courts are apt to err by sticking too closely to the words of a law where those words import a policy that goes beyond them.”

“Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.”

“There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…”

“It was a common saying of Myson that men ought not to investigate things from words, but words from things; for that things are not made for the sake of words, but words for things.”