She wants to tell the secret; what cannot be said with the voice for being too much the truth; the great truths are not usually said through speaking: the truth of what passes in the secret depth of time, in the silence of lives, and which cannot be said. ‘There are things that cannot be said,’ this is certain. Yet, what cannot be said is what has to be written. To discover the secret and to communicate are the two motives that move the writer.

— María Zambrano, Hacia un saber sobre el alma, 1950 (via)