Walter de la Mare: Quotes about silence

Walter de la Mare was English poet and fiction writer. Explore interesting quotes on silence.

Walter de la Mare: 66 quotes3 likes

“Never the least stir made the listeners,
Though every word he spake
Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house
From the one man left awake:
Aye, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,
And the sound of iron on stone,
And how the silence surged softly backward,
When the plunging hoofs were gone.”

Walter de la Mare

The Listeners (1912)

“"Is anybody there?" said the Traveler,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest's ferny floor.”

Walter de la Mare

The Listeners (1912)

“We wake and whisper awhile,
But, the day gone by,
Silence and sleep like fields
Of amaranth lie.”

Walter de la Mare

All That's Past.