“We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”
“Behind the word is silence, behind that silence is forgetfulness.”
Empire of Dreams (prose poetry, 1988)
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Puerto Rican writer 1953Related quotes
“Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits.”
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“to fashion silence into words”
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“Lying is done with words, and also with silence.”
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“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