"The Blank Page"
Last Tales (1957)
Context: Why, you are to become a story teller, and I shall give you the reasons! Hear then: Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak. Where the story has been betrayed, silence is but emptiness. But we, the faithful, when we have spoken our last word, will hear the voice of silence. Whether a small snotty lass understands it or not.
“We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”
1960s, The Trumpet of Conscience (1967)
Variant: In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Emily Dickinson http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/emily-dickinson-5/
From the poems written in English
“Where shall the word be found, where will the word
Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence”
Ash-Wednesday (1930)
Context: If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent
If the unheard, unspoken
Word is unspoken, unheard;
Still is the unspoken word, the Word unheard,
The Word without a word, the Word within
The world and for the world;
And the light shone in darkness and
Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled
About the centre of the silent Word. O my people, what have I done unto thee. Where shall the word be found, where will the word
Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence
The Exception to the Rulers written with David Goodman
Sonnet, Silence; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century
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