Quotes About Silence

At present, under the burden of canons and the burden of language's deep complicity with countless atrocities, the very making of poems requires audacity. And if the audacity is well-intended, it requires a certain awkwardness as proof of its unrehearsed refusal to comply with silence.

De los demás maraqueados durante el convivio, nada. Nadita. Humo, fantasmas. Unas decenas más a las listas de los desaparecidos anónimos. Ni una mención a la masacre en el ejido La Providencia. Morirse en Narcolandia representaba un one way ticket a la Dimensión Desconocida.

The most intelligent of creatures," he offers softly, "often make the fewest sounds.

Men meet a woman who's mute, they take advantage of her. Never once on a date did a man ever try to communicate, not really. They just grabbed, and took, as if she, voiceless as an animal, was an animal. This is better. The man from the dream, hazy as he is, is better.

The most intelligent of creatures, often make the fewest sounds.

He. Nobody spoke his name. Vidal. It sounded like a stone thrown through a window

A H S U D A G U–W A H

Within each of us there is a silence, a silence as vast as the universe. And when we experience that silence, we remember who we are.

My garden is a place of commitment and neglect, of arrogance and humility. It is a place of taking stock and of deep silence—a place of contemplation. And so for me over time it has become a place of grace.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. —Winston Churchill

Aber die ungeheure Gefahr ist, daß Schlendrian und Nachahmung sich auch der Revolutionäre bemächtigen und sie zu Philistern des Radikalismus, des tönenden worts und der Gewaltgebärde machen; daß sie nicht wissen und nicht wissen wollen: die Umwandlung der Gesellschaft kann nur in Liebe, in Arbeit, in Stille kommen.

A brief rustling that broke off short, as if startled at itself, then deadly silence, that agonising, watchful hush, fraught with its own betrayal, that stretched each minute to an excruciating eternity.

Los invisibles átomos del aire en derredor palpitan y se inflaman, el cielo se deshace en rayos de oro, la tierra se estremece alborozada. Oigo flotando en olas de armonías, rumor de besos y batir de alas; mis párpados se cierran... ¿Qué sucede? ¿Dime? ¡Silencio! ¡Es el amor que pasa!

Del salón en el angulo oscuro de su dueño tal vez olvidada silenciosa y cubierta de polvo veiase el arpa ¡Cuanta nota dormia en sus cuerdas como el pájaro duerme en las ramas esperando la mano de nieve que sabe arrancarlas -¡Ay!-pensé-.¡Cuantas veces el genio asi duerme en el fondo del alma,,como Lazaro,espera que le diga:"¡Levantate y anda!" y una voz

Paseando por entre la indiferente multitud esta silenciosa tempestad de mi cabeza.

The cowardice that keeps silent in the face of the sufferings of the poor and that offers any number of adroit justifications represents an especially serious failure of Latin American Christians.

Soms valt het woord als een sneeuwvlok, Soms valt het woord als een steen, Zodat iedereen zegt: stil, daar valt een woord.

Tal vez así mueren los poetas: cuando las palabras se agotan.

Dictatorship means shut up, democracy means keep talking!

The true source of abundance is the silent mind, for within its fertile quietude rests all potential, all power, and all promise.

Dave hung up. And unplugged the phone. With a fierce and bitter pain he stared at it, watching how, over and over again, it didn't ring.

When you didn't say a lot, he thought, you said the important things.

And in the dark of that room, notorious for the woven patterns of desire it had seen, Ammar ibn Khairan held the woman beloved of the man he'd killed, and offered what small comfort he could. He granted her the courtesy and space of his silence, as she finally permitted herself to weep, mourning the depth of her loss, the appalling disappearance, in an instant, of love in a bitter world.

One of the pleasures of dealing with intelligent men, Lin Fong decided, watching seven people ride out the eastern gate in early-morning sunlight, was how much did not have to be spoken.