Quotes About Silence

Get rid of words and meaning, and there is still poetry.

It would be nice if all the Republicans could put poetry in a little box and put the box under the bed and sit on it, but they can't.

Then others for breath of words respect, Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.

Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.

Poetry makes nothing happen.

In an endless silence even screams sound silent.

Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.

Get rid of words, and get rid of meaning, and still there is poetry.

Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate.

...make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came." Wendell Berry

... the silenceHolds with its gloved handThe wild hawk of the mind.

you cross the field in the snow leaving tracks in perfect whiteness ...disturbing my placid universe...marking the landscape within me ...

This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.

Speak without words. Know the weight of words

My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma

Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.

We can't make any statements here. We can't talk about the internal politics of Paraguay.

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

You can't say 'I don't do politics,' because silence is a political statement.

From politics it was an easy step to silence.

I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.

If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter.

I realize it's probably best to keep my politics to myself.

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.