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«Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of.»
«Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...»
Author: E. E. Cummings
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
feebleness, mere, opposite, silences, star, The Voice, voice
«It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they ''speak with the accent of natives'' they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.»
Author: Ivan Illich
| Keywords:
accent, accents, delicacies, delicacy, delicately, explains, grammar, missionaries, Natives, notwithstanding, properly speaking, silences, The Silence
«Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.»
Author: Margaret Lee Runbeck
| About:
Friends,
Silence
| Keywords:
conversations, counts, needing, saying, silences
«In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Enemies,
Friends,
Friendship,
Words
| Keywords:
be all and end all, end, end on, enemies, Friends, In the, in the end, remember, silence, silences, silencing, The End, The Silence, The Silence of, words
«Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.»
Author: Mary Webb
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
conclusions, in conclusion, music, paused, pauses, pausing, silences
«First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context»
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
| About:
First love
| Keywords:
context, First Love, frantic, gestures, haughty, phrase, rut, ruts, silences, swings
«I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.»
Author: Samuel Beckett
(Writer)
| Keywords:
butterflies, competently, silences, spangled, spangles, The Butterflies, vertigo
«Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
above, at peace, beautiful, Beautiful Life, brown, browned, browning, browns, death, earth, forget, forgive, Forgive and forget, For No One, grasses, grassing, have, head, head up, in no time, In the, lay out, lie, lie in, life, listen, listen in, morrow, morrows, must, musts, no., no, No Wave, one at a time, Only Yesterday, peace, silence, silences, silencing, soft, The Brown, The Forgotten, time, Time Life, to be, waving, with, yesterday
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