“Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.”

Quoted in Khrushchev Remembers (1970), p. 474

Source: Sabriel

Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

“Literaturaliae”, from Theme of My Biography (2000)

19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967

New Theories of Everything (2007)

A Thought on Parting.
Context: But then to part! to part when Time
Has wreathed his tireless wing with flowers,
And spread the richness of a clime
Of fairy o'er this land of ours;
When glistening leaves and shaded streams
In the soft light of Autumn lay,
And, like the music of our dreams,
The viewless breezes seemed to stray—
'T was bitter then to rend the heart
With the sad thought that we must part;
And, like some low and mournful spell,
To whisper but one word—farewell!

Source: Fade Out