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Irene Keliher

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Irene Keliher

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“Music, on the other hand, does not allow us to hide. It is a vehicle for emotion. Perhaps, in a way, it is nothing but feeling, even in its most precise form.”

— Irene Keliher, "When You Can No Longer Talk about It, You Have to Sing" in Narrative Magazine

Tagged: Music, Emotion, Music And Feeling, Understanding Emotion

“Language creates boundaries around chaos and gives meaning to pain, to mess, and to confusion. Sentences emerge from the internal wilderness and form a path. And yet words can form a barrier between emotion and experience. Any writer will tell you how baffling is the gap between imagination and execution, between what is sensed and what is said. I write to discover what I think, and even what I feel. Through language, I chase disorderly emotion into a field with a perimeter I can see, and mark, and claim.”

— Irene Keliher, "When You Can No Longer Talk about It, You Have to Sing" Narrative Magazine

Tagged: Language, Power of Language, Power of Words, Emotion And Experience, Imagination, Being A Writer, Power of Writing, Why I Write

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