“In these silences, something may rise”

“There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.”

John Cage book Silence: Lectures and Writings

“Rising from the past, my shadow
Is running in silence to meet me.”

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet

“Go to where the silence is and say something.”

Amy Goodman (1957) American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter and author

“Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.”

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer

“May my silences become more accurate.”

Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet

“Either be silent or say something better than silence.”

Publilio Siro Latin writer

“When you have something to say, silence is a lie.”

Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology

“The tongue may be an unruly member--
But silence poisons the soul.”

Edgar Lee Masters book Spoon River Anthology

“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore