“Behind the word is silence, behind that silence is forgetfulness.”
Empire of Dreams (prose poetry, 1988)
“Behind the word is silence, behind that silence is forgetfulness.”
Empire of Dreams (prose poetry, 1988)
“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 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.
“Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits.”
Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
"Captain Michio and the World of Tomorrow" in The Wall Street Journal (9 March 2012) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203960804577239852155894014.html
Emily Dickinson http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/emily-dickinson-5/
From the poems written in English
David Crystal. Spell It Out: The singular story of English spelling. 2012. p. 277-8
"I shit on all the revolutionary vanguards of this planet" http://www.csuchico.edu/zapatist/HTML/Archive/Communiques/etaJAN.html January, 2003