#adequacy

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#inadequacy-of-words #language #literature #writing #literature

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too. ↗

— William Faulkner

#salvation #sin #words #salvation

In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#enormous #find #goes #hands #haze

After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country. ↗

— Simon LeBon

#country #feeling #foreign #inadequacy #invasion

Adequacy is sufficient. ↗

— Adam Osborne

#sufficient

He had delusions of adequacy. ↗

— Walter Kerr

#delusions #had

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all. ↗

— Patricia A. McKillip

#language #meaning #words #language

Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#greatness #humility #inadequacy #insecurity #wisdom-inspirational

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#aspect #being #cerebral #cherished #comes

I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring a little lower still, and it merely goes out. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#language #spirituality #weakness #life