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I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
Stand shadowless like Silence, listening
To silence,
(Thomas Hood (1799-1845), British poet. Autumn (l. 1-3). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Nominalist and Realist," Essays, Second Series (1844).)
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The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;
not in silence, but restraint.
(Marianne Moore (1887-1972), U.S. poet. "Silence," Selected Poems (1935).)
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Tell X that speech is not dirty silence
Clarified. It is silence made still dirtier.
(Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "The Creations of Sound.")
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Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.
(Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918), U.S. historian. Letter, January 27, 1905, to Margaret Chanler. Letters, Vol. 2, p. 445, ed. Worthington Chauncy Ford, Houghton Mifflin (1938).)
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Life became a pregnant silence, but it was understood that the silence was to lead nowhere.
(John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. "The System.")
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The tension to mother the "right" way can leave a peculiar silence within mother daughter relationships—the silence of a mother's own truth and experience. Within this silence, a daughter's authentic voice can also fall silent. This is the silence of perfection. This silence of perfection prevents mothers from listening and learning from their daughters.
(Elizabeth Debold (20th century), U.S. consultant, mother, Marie Wilson (20th century), U.S. businesswoman, mother, and Idelisse Malave (20th century), U.S. lawyer, mother. Mother Daughter Revolution, ch. 5 (1993).)
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Silence augmenteth grief, writing increaseth rage,
(Fulke Greville (1554-1628), British poet, and Sir Edward Dyer (c. 1540-1607), British poet. Epitaph on Sir Philip Sidney (attributed to Greville) (l. 1). . .
Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932) Oxford University Press.)
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Silence is the perfectest herald of joy.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Claudio, in Much Ado About Nothing, act 2, sc. 1, l. 306.
Unable to express his happiness on being offered Hero in marriage.)
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Silence is the best response to mystery.
(Kathleen Norris (b. 1947), U.S. poet and farmer. Dakota, ch. 3 (1993).)
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