Speak What We Feel (Not What We Ought To Say): reflections on faith and literature is a collection of literary critical and theological essays authored by Frederick Buechner.

The essays include Buechner's reflections on King Lear (1608), The Man Who Was Thursday (1908), and Adventures Huckleberry Finn (1884).

[5] This is echoed by Jeffrey Munro, who further suggests that Buechner writes out of a particular affinity with the writers included in Speak What We Feel, commenting that many of the author's 'greatest works' were 'formed from the crucible of his pain'.

[8] The critic agrees with Munroe's suggestion that the work is autobiographical in nature, writing that it is 'a consideration of the weight of [Buechner's] own sad times, through an encounter with those of Twain, Hopkins, Chesterton, and Shakespeare'.

[9] Brown concludes that while Speak What We Feel 'reveals a good bit about four literary greats, it reveals even more about Buechner himself', and that the 'small volume is a litany in praise of kindred spirits'.