“Although the stars do not speak, even in being silent they cry out.”
John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer
“Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street… Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks.”
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