The worst that can happen often happens in silence. It is not the explosion, but the aftermath, when you see through the smoke and ash, that you know how much you have lost.
Alice Hoffman, The Invisible Hour
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Wendell Berry, New Collected Poems; "Words"
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"So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me for I, too, am fluent in silence."
R. Arnold
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on silence
Sylvia Plath, "Lorelei" | Bayside, "Dear your Holiness" | Taylor Swift, "The Great War" | Luca Guadagnino, Call me by your Name
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damn
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
— Anaïs Nin, Under a Glass Bell
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Christa Wolf tr. by Jan van Heurck / Cassandra: A Novel & Four Essays
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— "Nothing", Krysten Hill
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A needle falls. The silent voice of night. Quiet does not mean soundless. It is quiet, nesting within sound. Silence gathers behind one’s back. One hears the sound of one’s own breathing.
Geetanjali Shree in, Tomb of Sand.
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Not one person in a hundred knows how to be silent and listen, no, nor even to conceive what such a thing means. Yet only then can you detect, beyond the fatuous clamour, the silence of which the universe is made.
Samuel Beckett, Molloy
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— Maurice Manning, from “On Silence”, Railsplitter
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have had this piece by kirill medvedev stuck in my brain:
"for a long time I wanted
no one to know about me,
but then i wanted everyone to know about my anonymity
and for everyone to understand this as their punishment;"
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“I defend not my voice, but my silence.”
Anna Akhmatova
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