
“We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”
Empire of Dreams (prose poetry, 1988)
“We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”
“Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits.”
Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
“to fashion silence into words”
From The Poet and the Poem in Songs of the Silent World, Houghton & Grifffin, Boston, USA 1884 kindle ebook ASIN B004TPPDY0
Emily Dickinson http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/emily-dickinson-5/
From the poems written in English
“Lying is done with words, and also with silence.”
Source: Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying
“Silence is better than unmeaning words.”
As quoted in Encyclopaedia Americana (1832) Vol. X, p. 445 edited by Francis Lieber, E. Wigglesworth, and Thomas Gamaliel Bradford