The Road I Know Quotes

“Seeing the thing makes it too big for words; they stumble. A condensation of words is a flat crystallized process. Reality is a rounded thing, that pulses. It overflows the mold of words. I cannot tell what my words are doing. I can only radiate myself. That is my form of expression. Take it from me as I pass: it is yours.”
― Stewart Edward White, The Road I Know

“It’s like trying to look at the stars in the daytime,” she once complained. “It’s perfectly clear until I bring it into the daylight of words, and then it’s gone. I don’t want to be silly; but the words make one laugh: they are so long-drawn-out for the amount of idea in them. It is as impossible to put my world2 into words as it is to put the ocean in a bucket.”
― Stewart Edward White, The Road I Know