Wordgrove Post & Review

THEME Word:   silence

Quoted in The Grove:
What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
~Baruch Spinoza

There is no diplomacy like silence.
~Benjamin Disraeli

Silence is the ability to hold your job.
~Joseph Julius Bonkowski

EndQuote:
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
~Cato the Elder

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Prewritten Prompt for 11/09:   bridge

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Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.
~Balthasar Gracian

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
~Francis Bacon

Silence is the uninterrupted sound of forever.
~Terri Guillemets

Silence is medication for sorrow.
~Arab proverb

Silence is also speech.
~Proverb

Silence is argument carried on by other means.
~Ernesto Guevara

Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.
~Theodore Parker

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
~George Bernard Shaw

Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
~Hippocrates

Silence is the garden of thought.
~Ali ibn Abi Talib

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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
~Blaise Pascal

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
~William S Burroughs

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
~Walter Bagehot

Silence is a learned practice that requires far more than just not talking. Not talking is not silence; it’s just not talking.
~Caroline Myss

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The vow of silence, that’s the mind-blower. See, talking is what I do… i t’s a real need with me, a craving, I’m like a word junkie. I never shut up. I talk to myself, I talk in my sleep. The idea of voluntarily turning off that tap, I can’t imagine it. It’d be like, I don’t know, all the rivers in the world just slammed to a stop. No churning, no flowing, no white water, just stillness, crushing stillness. I don’t think I could stand it, locked up like that in my own psyche. I’d collapse into myself, I’d implode.
~Andrew Schneider

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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
~Adrienne Rich

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
~Henri Frederic Amiel

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
~Benjamin Franklin

Your silence will not protect you.
~Audre Lorde

Don’t you know that silence supports the accuser’s charge?
~Sophocles

Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.
~Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Silence is a text easy to misread.
~A A Attanasio

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Posted From The Grove

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
~Margaret Atwood

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.
~Paul Robeson

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible, the fear of failure. Never forget your personal legend. Your silent heart will guide you. Be silent now. It is the possibility of a dream that makes life interesting. You can choose between being a victim of destiny or an adventurer who is fighting for something important.
~Paulo Coelho

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
~Martin Luther King, Jr

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
~Edmund Burke

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
~Jane Austen

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I shall assume that your silence gives consent.
~Plato

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
~Leonardo da Vinci

Silence often expresses more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.
~Benjamin Disraeli

A conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.
~John Lennon

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
~Martin Luther King, Jr

Silence only gets you in trouble when it’s time to speak.
~Joseph Julius Bonkowski

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.
~Martin Luther King, Jr

The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
~Sylvia Plath

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
~Elie Wiesel

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These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
~Anthony de Mello

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
~Sun Tzu

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
~Michel de Montaigne

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
~Charles de Gaulle

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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
~Audre Lorde

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
~Napoleon Bonaparte

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You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
~John Morley

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~Alessa dro Sacchi:  Silence   (5:40)   attending a ball, but not that kind
https://vimeo.com/70488177

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~Piano Explorations:  Silence   (5:16)   another pictures/music moment; less soothing, perhaps more interesting visually/aurally
https://vimeo.com/84962866

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~Wioleta Kaminska:  Silence   (1:01)   puzzling juxtaposition
https://vimeo.com/249845724

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~Beyon:  Silence — Constellate   (1:30)   two in a ponderation, plays out over a simple animation
https://vimeo.com/66697129

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~National Geographic:  Watch Flowers Bloom   (3:24)   brilliant flowers unfurl against emphatic blackground, the colors pop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjCzPp-MK48

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There is something in the nature of silence which affects me deeply. Why it is I know not; but I do know that I love to be alone at such an hour as this. I love to forget the outward world and hold communion with the beings of the mind.
~Charles Lanman

I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can’t find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.
~Elizabeth Gilbert

I’m a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I’m happy that way.
~Rachel Kushner

I came to love silence, because it’s so rare, and it’s now my favorite aural condition.
~Mike Nichols

The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.
~Aristotle

I love silence. But I usually only listen to that when I’m sleeping.
~Zedd

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To reply to silence with silence can kill a conversation.
~Joseph Julius Bonkowski

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
~Samuel Johnson

Cold silence has a tendency to
atrophy any
sense of compassion
between supposed lovers
~Maynard James Keenan

What shall I say to you? What can I say
Better than silence is?…
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart!
~Richard Flecknoe

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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
~Martin Farquhar Tupper

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
~Seneca the Elder

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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
~Khalil Gibran

Now all my teachers are dead except silence…
~W S Merwin

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
~Helen Keller

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VIDEO:

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention… A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
~Rachel Naomi Remen

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing…that is a friend who cares.
~Henri Nouwen

Empathize with silence by listening for the feelings and needs behind it.
~Marshall B Rosenberg

The word ‘listen’ contains the same letters as the word ‘silent.’
~Alfred Brendel

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
~Arthur Helps

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The only golden thing that some women dislike is silence.
~Evan Esar

Silence is an ornament for women.
~Sophocles

Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.
~Alphonse de Lamartine

To women silence gives their proper grace.
~Sophocles

Great souls suffer in silence.
~Friedrich Schiller

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African women in general need to know that it’s OK for them to be the way they are — to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
~Wangari Maathai

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t.
~Audre Lorde

The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.
~Ursula K Le Guin

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.
~Margaret Sanger

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
~Alice Walker

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
~Harvey Fierstein

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Most prominent among the storylines and videos reviewed for this issue were those concerning loneliness, suicide and abuse; yet all the therapies, ministries, and poetries of literature are in favor of silence. Go figure.
~the editor

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On a more inspiring note, the following:

~Omeleto:  Lost in Sound   (7:19)   bittersweet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCOBaDBnTAY

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~Omeleto:  The Fox   (8:49)   stealth, not silence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmL3HLuYcTw

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~Omeleto:  Sprites   (15:37)   when holograph actors audition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfGrP1G1Kjk

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~Omeleto:  CODA   (22:19)   child of deaf adults, and dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-l8eAOW6Kc

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Silence is a fence around wisdom.
~German proverb

Silence is wisdom’s sentinel.
~James Lendall Basford

The Arctic expresses the sum total of all wisdom.
Silence. Nothing but silence…
~Walter Bauer

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Silence is the parent of wise thoughts, — the mark of a well composed mind.
~John Hunt

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.
~Myrtle Reed

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
~Johannes Tauler

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If you don’t die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.
~Anne Lamott

The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,— words with little meaning, actions with little worth,— one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence… Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.
~Thomas Carlyle

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
~Honore de Balzac

Let us love silence till the world is made to die in our hearts. Let us always remember death, and in this thought draw near to God in our heart – and the pleasures of this world will have our scorn.
~Isaac Jogues

If humans died in a healthy culture, they would not lock out the earth in metal coffins and carve their names on stone monuments, but would instead place the naked body in the earth and plant a tree above the silent heart.
~William Irwin Thompson

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MUSIC:

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
~Wagner

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
~Aldous Huxley

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible.
~Jacques Attali

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Silence is more musical than any song.
Christina Rossetti

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.
~Sting

Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.
~Socrates

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
~Marcel Marceau

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.
~Leopold Stokowski

No voice; but oh – the silence sank
Like music on my heart.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture – all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.
~Freya Stark

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
~Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
~Edith Sitwell

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~Codcast Channel:  Silent Love   (3:58)   not saccharine, more like honey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuuEs0oVVS8

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~Gomez:  Silence   (2:59)   reminds of an earlier era
https://vimeo.com/10466387

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~KMET:  Silence   (4:20)   simple: guitar, lyrics, gossamer veils
https://vimeo.com/251347656

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~Paul Simon:  The Sound of Silence   (pick one)

~Touch of Class:  The Sound of Silence   (4:12)   thoroughly lived-in delivery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQxG9E_Hf6Y

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~Stephanie Jones   (3:02)   instrumental guitar that doesn’t follow rote, charming expression in two modes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bXAVm7NZs8

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~Puddles Pity Party   (3:47)   hints of Halloween, offbeat, evolving performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3RXf0E_Vuw

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~MoonSun:  Slain by Silence   (4:30)   shades of goth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OFgFbgmPSg

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~The Tremeloes:  Silence is Golden   (3:08)   of other efforts that followed, this rendition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n03g8nsaBro

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~Queensryche:   Silent Lucidity   (5:50)   in lieu of a lullaby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhat-xUQ6dw

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~Lara Fabian:  Silence   (3:00)   a meditation at quick-time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j87UpkH7xpk

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The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sealed.
~Charlotte Bronte

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter.
~James Earl Jones

Some hearts understand each other, even in silence.
~Yasmin Mogahed

Silence is the speech of love,
The music of the spheres above.
~Richard Henry Stoddard

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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
~Author unknown

Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart;
My silent heart, lie still and break:
Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed
For a dream’s sake.
~Christina Rossetti

In a relationship when things are really great you don’t need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don’t know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don’t want to stop talking because you don’t want to lose one another.
~Anton Yelchin

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
~Judy Garland

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But with exquisite breathing you smile,
with satisfaction of love,
And I touch you again as you tick
in the silence and settle in sleep.
~Karl Shapiro

When I’m off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It’s a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything — going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense.
~Alanis Morissette

Too many doubts grow in the cracks of silence and separation.
~Alison Goodman

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I’m sitting here thinking, -God, I swear I will take a vow of silence and move to a monastery and worship you for all my days if you just this once provide me with an invisibility cloak, come on, come on, please please invisibility cloak now now now-.
~John Green

Honk if you hate noise pollution.
~Bumper sticker

NOISE, n. A stench in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.
~Ambrose Bierce

Confidence: That quiet assured feeling you have before you fall flat on your face.
~L Binder

“No one wants to hear you make a big stink over nothing, so shut up.” The strict linguist might want to note that the literal translation of that Chinese phrase runs along these noble lines: “Loud farts don’t smell, the really smelly ones are deadly silent.”
~Amy Tan

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
~George Eliot

If silence is golden, a lot of people are off the gold standard.
~Evan Esar

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.
~Muhammad Ali

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don’t know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it’s a simple premise. If it’s funny, people laugh. If it’s not, they don’t.
~Steve Coogan

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Sylvan Silence:  A Peaceful Place Awaits, But One Must Seek It Out, My Friend

©Chet Nickerson

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Some say silence is golden, I choose noise!
~Blake Lewis

We like no noise unless we make it ourselves.
~Marie de Rabutin-Chantal

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.
~Charles Dickens

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
~William Dean Howells

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Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it’s a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it’s a pen that scratches.
~Robert Orben

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
~Mark Twain

The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July.
~E V Lucas

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In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born.
~Luigi Russolo

Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.
~James Thurber

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I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.
~Arthur Schopenhauer

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned away from silence. Every day he invents machines and gadgets that multiply noise and distract man from essential life, from reflection, from spiritual immersion.
Motor-car, airplane, radio, atom bomb are the latest great victories of progress. Man today has nothing essential to do, but he wants to do this nothing with speed and superhuman noise. He wants to be distracted, and fails to suspect that the robot who now holds the reins is driving him to the meaningless.
~Jean Arp

Nothing is not only nothing. It is also our prison.
~Antonio Porchia

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People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise.
~Bill Murray

The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
~Benjamin Franklin

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.
~Henry David Thoreau

For that reason you can’t write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you’re writing, and for that you need silence.
~Philip Pullman

Cultivate quietness. All noise is waste. All real power is silent.
Speak habitually low. Wait for silence and attention, and then your low words will be charged with dynamic… Nothing shrieks if it be true. Truth is eternal, and eternal things are low-keyed
~Frank Crane

True Silence is the rest of the Mind, and is to the Spirit, what Sleep is to the Body, Nourishment and Refreshment. It is a great Virtue; it covers Folly, keeps Secrets, avoids Disputes, and prevents Sin.
~William Penn

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Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words.
~Milan Kundera

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
~Steve Jobs

All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest.
~Bayazid Bastami

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…I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise.
~Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

Most forms of courage aren’t especially visible. Most courage, in fact, is quiet.
~Frank Deford

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Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.
~Arthur Schopenhauer

Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
~Joan Baez

Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence.
~Max Ehrmann

Silence is exhilarating at first as noise is,— but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.
~Edward Hoagland

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…the monologue never ends. We are quite probably dreaming all the time, but consciousness makes so much noise that we no longer hear the dream when awake.
~Carl Jung

Listening to the eternal involves a silence within us.
~Thomas Raymond Kelly

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The loudest noise in the world is silence.
~Thelonious Monk

Unexplained noises are best left unexplained.
~John Bellairs

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@Writers Platform

It were vain for me to endeavor to interrupt the Silence. She cannot be done into English.
~Henry David Thoreau

I don’t know how to express myself in words. What I feel is not translatable. I express myself better through silence.
~Clarice Lispector

What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
~Wade Davis

Without books, history is silence, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
~Robert Arp

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
~Charles Simic

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
~Ansel Adams

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It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
~Pythagoras

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
~Thomas Jefferson

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A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
~Susan Griffin

Where shall the word be found, where will the word
Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
~T S Eliot

Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.
~Pythagoras

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
~Thomas Carlyle

If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
~Vincent Van Gogh

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.
~Joyce Carol Oates

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Everyone always asks, was he mad at you for writing the book? and I have to say, Yes, yes, he was. He still is. It is one of the most fascinating things to me about the whole episode: he cheated on me, and then got to behave as if he was the one who had been wronged because I wrote about it! I mean, it’s not as if I wasn’t a writer. It’s not as if I hadn’t often written about myself. I’d even written about him. What did he think was going to happen? That I would take a vow of silence for the first time in my life?
~Nora Ephron

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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
~Octavio Paz

Words express neither objects nor ourselves.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The answers you seek never come when the mind is busy, they come when the mind is still, when silence speaks loudest.
~Leon Brown

There is an eloquent silence: it serves sometimes to approve, sometimes to condemn; there is a mocking silence; there is a respectful silence.
~Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.
~Sri Chinmoy

I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.
~Chaim Potok

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.
~Henry J Kaiser

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GLASS TABLE:

~Bckpakr: Excerpt from:  Trip to Greece

When I was younger, I left home and spent about 15 years hitch-hiking
and back-packing across Europe, sleeping on beaches and finding jobs around the coastlines and in resorts, and when I felt like moving on, I did so.

I thought about returning home from my travels, and remember once doing so.

But when I got there, the house was locked up and when I looked through the letterbox in the door, I saw the house was empty and it echoed when I called through the door, then I felt really alone and that I had no family anymore.

My mother had moved to Canada so, with no home to come to, I turned around and went back out to travelling and looking for where life might take me.

There were new horizons to look for, and not looking back, is the best motivation for moving forward, of all!

Hitch-hiking from London to Brindisi, the Italian coastal port-city from which you take a ferry to Greece, if you traveled successfully through the night non-stop, would take you about 3 days!

And that’s what I would do, travel for however many days it took without sleeping to get to my destination, and then when I arrived – would crash on the beach for 14 or 15 hours, until I felt better.

(to be continued)

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~Luvkittys7: Space

Aren’t we already in there? Here?

Space is where we sit and space is what we spin in.

Galactic Creatures. Already spoken for.

Many books claim us.

Are we In Them?

Once we Were.

But are we still In Them?

Once we wanted to be.

In the books.

Not so much anymore.

We…

Forget to write them.

Say your words.

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Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.
~Henry Adams

Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.
~Rumi

Silence is God’s first language.
~John of the Cross

Listen to God’s speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.
~Catherine Doherty

You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.
~Sathya Sai Baba

God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.
~Mother Teresa

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
~Mahatma Gandhi

There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.
~Gregory Bateson

Make time for quiet moments, as God whispers and the world is loud.
~Author unknown

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Prewritten Prompt:   silence

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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
~Emily Bronte

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
~Phillips Brooks

Silence is the cornerstone of character.
~Charles Alexander Eastman

This is undoubtedly part of the reason we flee silence. We do not want to be confronted with our hypocrisy, our phoniness. We see how false and fragile is the false self we project.
~Basil Pennington

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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
~Samuel Beckett

The more you know the less you talk.
~A R Rahman

The older you get the more quiet you become. Life humbles you so deeply as you age.
~Bakari Mustafa

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.
~Simon Wiesenthal

If silence is good for the wise, how much better is it for the foolish!
~Ivan Panin

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
~Publilius Syrus

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.
~George Bernard Shaw

Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance.
~Eric Lau

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The Exercise

slice of quiet

the portion of sound called silence
the sound of acquiescence
of subservience
the master waiting obeisance
or the center
and all else distortion

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in passing

silence, but for the rain
the soothing drone of it
before its drizzle
became the sodden dropping
before the sudden ending
but it poured with a passion
to start
when the storm of love
broke

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betwixt

chaos and loud noise
crowd out, leave no room
for wisdom to breathe
the absence of silence

having said our farewells
parting thoughts graveside
begins the sorrow
the silence of absence

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Strange, That

Memory speaks as I think aloud
that every place I’ve been
had the most beautiful clouds
I’d ever seen

That a silence endured
free of words,
the most beautiful sound
I ever heard

Within creation
in a life of roamin’
there’s no beauty to match
that of any woman

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melodrama

blood is red
a fingerprint clue
the sentence is read
the silence is blue
my appeal in a sentence
tho the evidence is true
I am the innocent
the guilty one, you

finish with flourish
fluid elegance
a chance to divert
slide offstage
the dance to escape
bid a sly adieu
a little soft shoe
the one to use

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5s ‘n 7s

first the silence
vacuum, fertile for the seed
spark of intention
then voice, noise of creation
as it’s ever been with words

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there is no silence
like never was/never will
love interjected

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the secret is out
trust and belief meant nothing
your silence fiction

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book on the table
full of silence, time alone
you wanted to talk

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for the audition
music or silence or noise
and I chose all three

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LAST QUOTES:

Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.
~Nicholas Sparks

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
~Elbert Hubbard

Silence is sometimes the only way to share the unsharable.
~Ron McLarty

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Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.
~Taylor Swift

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.
~Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

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Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
~Josh Billings

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The silence of a winter morning is sharper than the silence of a summer dawn. The silence of a mountain pass is larger than the silence of a forest glen… We need to pay heed to the many silences in our lives … each silence has a character of its own.
~Kent Nerburn

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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
~Khalil Gibran

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If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
~George Eliot

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It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.
~Saint Francis de Sales

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The law of silence: Speak little. Say only what you must. Speak only when necessary. Your oratory should be deeds, not words. You accomplish: let others talk.
~Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

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Always keep a good distance between yourself and lying, quarreling, detracting, insulting and gossip. The person who can do that will some day learn to enjoy the silence.
~Thomas a Kempis

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The silent man is the only consistent man.
~Simeon Carter

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
~Meister Eckhart

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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
~Robert Arp

Some days, we just need to turn the quiet up.
~Dr SunWolf

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Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
~Benjamin Franklin

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
~John Tillotson

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
~Xenocrates

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To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.
~Ovid

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
~Elizabeth I

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Every sound is born out of silence, dies back into silence, and during its life span is surrounded by silence. Silence enables the sound to be.
~Eckhart Tolle

Silence may not be golden, but it is always worth its weight in gold.
~Evan Esar

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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
~Thomas Carlyle

Silence is sometimes best unsaid.
~Joseph Julius Bonkowski

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