Quotes About Silence

Let us be silent to listen to the heart's songs of eternity. Let us be kind to feel the beauty of tranquility. Let us vanish to belong and be nothing.

For a moment, just be silent and feel the joy of life.

Art is a reflection of poetry and beauty of the heart and mind without the use of any words.

Be silent and listen to the song of your soul.

The surest of stubborn silences is not to hold one's tongue but to talk

Cameron Conaway, Bonemeal

Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily

The beauty of words will forever be stronger than the silence of tears.

Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

Painting is silent poetry.

The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence

The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema.

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

One ambition of poetry, certainly, is to create a reverberant silence in its wake, one that means more or differently than the silence that preceded the poem.

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.

Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.