
“The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.”
Source: Fourth Mansions (1969), Ch. 8
“The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.”
“No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.”
“A man’s at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.”
Blood Meridian (1985)
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
O Pelé calado é um poeta. Dentro de campo, ele foi o nosso pai. Fora dele, tem de colocar um sapato na boca.
Source: Veja Magazine; 1895 Edition. March 9th, 2005.
Context: Angry answer after Pele told different sources that Romário should retire from pro soccer.
Commentary Quotes
The Great Queen is Amused.
High Spirits: A Collection of Ghost Stories (1982)
Original quote:
For my friend said that he opened his intellect as the sun opens the fans of a palm tree, opening for opening's sake, opening infinitely for ever. But I said that I opened my intellect as I opened my mouth, in order to shut it again on something solid. I was doing it at the moment. And as I truly pointed out, it would look uncommonly silly if I went on opening my mouth infinitely, for ever and ever.
The Extraordinary Cabman, one of many essays collected in Tremendous Trifles (1909)
Misattributed