“A word into the silence thrown always finds its echo somewhere where silence opens hidden lexicons.”

Source: The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading

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

Fragment 121; page 387

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)

The Sound of Silence
Song lyrics, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. (1964)

"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.

Empire of Dreams (prose poetry, 1988)

Silence and Tact
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy