
“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer.”
Source: The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. XI.
Source: Midnight's Children
“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer.”
Source: The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. XI.
“And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After earth has stopped the ears.”
No. 19 ("To an Athlete Dying Young"), st. 4.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)
Vol. II, p. 30
1980s, Letters to the Schools (1981, 1985)
Context: Attention involves seeing and hearing. We hear not only with our ears but also we are sensitive to the tones, the voice, to the implication of words, to hear without interference, to capture instantly the depth of a sound. Sound plays an extraordinary part in our lives: the sound of thunder, a flute playing in the distance, the unheard sound of the universe; the sound of silence, the sound of one’s own heart beating; the sound of a bird and the noise of a man walking on the pavement; the waterfall. The universe is filled with sound. This sound has its own silence; all living things are involved in this sound of silence. To be attentive is to hear this silence and move with it.
The Adventurer, # 84 (August 25, 1753) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12050
Variant: Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
Emily Dickinson http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/emily-dickinson-5/
From the poems written in English
Source: Entweder / Oder