“to fashion silence into words”

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

From The Poet and the Poem in Songs of the Silent World, Houghton & Grifffin, Boston, USA 1884 kindle ebook ASIN B004TPPDY0

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American author, intellectual and feminist 1844–1911

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“Lying is done with words, and also with silence.”

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“Silence is better than unmeaning words.”

Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher

As quoted in Encyclopaedia Americana (1832) Vol. X, p. 445 edited by Francis Lieber, E. Wigglesworth, and Thomas Gamaliel Bradford

“Silence is more eloquent than words.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

“Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.”

Jeanette Winterson book Lighthousekeeping

Source: Lighthousekeeping

“Words flow under a bridge of silence.”

Avner Strauss (1954) Israeli musician

A Song For You (1980).

“Where shall the word be found, where will the word
Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

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