
“The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.”
Source: The Passion According to G.H.
Source: The Decline of the West, Vol 2: Perspectives of World History
“The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.”
Source: The Passion According to G.H.
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 863
La vue d'un tel monument est comme une musique continuelle et fixée, qui vous attend pour vous faire du bien quand vous vous en approchez.
Bk. 4, ch. 3
The idea that "architecture is frozen music" — an aphorism of disputed origin sometimes misattributed to de Staël — is found in a number of German writers of the period.
Corinne (1807)
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
Context: I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.
It's Alpha and Omega's Kingdom come.
Song lyrics, American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002), The Man Comes Around
“Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.”
“To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.”
Alternating Current (1967)
Source: Short fiction, Midsummer Century (1972), Chapter 9 (p. 61)