“For echo is the soul of the voice exciting itself in hollow places.”
Source: The English Patient
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Source: At the Back of the North Wind (1871), Chapter 18
“In the hollow
Silver voices ripple and cry
Follow, O follow!”
The Golden Land
Mi voz me dice: “Así es todo”.
Y el eco de mi voz me dice: “Así eres tú”.
Voces (1943)
“This is a haunted world. It hath no breeze
But is the echo of some voice beloved”
Introductory poem.
Poems (1869)
Context: This is a haunted world. It hath no breeze
But is the echo of some voice beloved:
Its pines have human tones; its billows wear
The color and the sparkle of dear eyes.
Its flowers are sweet with touch of tender hands
That once clasped ours. All things are beautiful
Because of something lovelier than themselves,
Which breathes within them, and will never die. —
Haunted,—but not with any spectral gloom;
Earth is suffused, inhabited by heaven.
“We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.”
“Stories,” p. 60
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”
No. IV
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)