“Words flow under a bridge of silence.”
A Song For You (1980).
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Source: The Waste Land (1922), Line 60 et seq.
This is a reference to Dante's Inferno, Canto III, lines 55-57

Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
Et nos amours
Faut-il qu'il m'en souvienne
La joie venait toujours après la peine
Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure
"Le Pont Mirabeau" (Mirabeau Bridge), line 1; translation by William Meredith, from Francis Steegmuller Apollinaire: Poet Among the Painters (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973) p. 193.
Alcools (1912)

“That's a lot of hard work gone under the water, under the bridge.”
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“And silence matched the silence under snow.”
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Louis Althusser and Étienne Balibar, Reading Capital (1968), Part One: From Capital to Marx’s Philosophy
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“Words build bridges into unexplored regions.”
“Behind the word is silence, behind that silence is forgetfulness.”
Empire of Dreams (prose poetry, 1988)