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Silencing Quotes (page 24)

Any clear thing that blinds us with surprise, your wandering silences and bright trouvailles, dolphin let loose to catch the flashing fish... saying too little, then too much. Poets die adolescents, their beat embalms them, the archetypal voices sing offkey; the old actor cannot read his friends, and nevertheless he reads himself aloud, genuis hums the auditorium dead. The line must terminate. Yet my heart rises, I know I've gladdened a lifetimeknotting, undoing a fishnet of tarred rope; the... Robert Lowell
Neil Gaiman quote: "This country would get along much better if people learned how..."
This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence. Neil Gaiman
Joseph Conrad quote: "The Zangiacomo band was not making music; it was simply..."
The Zangiacomo band was not making music; it was simply murdering silence with a vulgar, ferocious energy. Joseph Conrad
No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. John Steinbeck
I curl up, make myself smaller, try to disappear entirely. Wrapped in silence, I slide my bracelet that reads 'mentally disoriented' around and around my wrist. Suzanne Collins
You’d better tell me what you know, toad,” said Tiffany. “Miss Tick isn’t here. I am.” “Another world is colliding with this one,” said the toad. “There. Happy now? That’s what Miss Tick thinks. But it’s happening faster than she expected. All the monsters are coming back.” “Why?” “There’s no one to stop them.” There was silence for a moment. “There’s me,” said Tiffany. Terry Prachett
Jeanette Winterson quote: "Words are the part of silence that can be spoken."
Words are the part of silence that can be spoken. Jeanette Winterson
To give up our imaginary position as the center, to renounce it, not only intellectually but in the imaginative part of our soul, that means to awaken to what is real and eternal, to see the true light and hear the true silence. Simone Weil
To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes. Ray Bradbury
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. The writer doubles and trebles the power of writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Victor Hugo
There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes. Rumi
Now I find my good men. Are gathered in the night. To wait in silence, not to sleep. And the glorious word of liberty. They whisper and murmur. Till in unaccustomed strangeness. On the steps of our temper. Once again in delight they cry. Freedom! Freedom! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie) Jean-Luc Godard
Lily had no heart to lean on. Her relation with her aunt was as superficial as that of chance lodgers who pass on the stairs. But even had the two been in closer contact, it was impossible to think of Mrs. Peniston's mind as offering shelter or comprehension to such misery as Lily's. As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitutde, but... Edith Wharton
Theodore Roethke quote: "May my silences become more accurate."
May my silences become more accurate. Theodore Roethke

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