“And then there crept
A little noiseless noise among the leaves,
Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.”
"I Stood Tiptoe", l. 10
Poems (1817)
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Source: 1910's, The Art of Noise', 1913, p. 4
Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Any action born of noise produces more noise, more confusion.”
Varanasi 2nd Public Talk (22 November 1964)
1960s
Context: You know, in the case of most of us, the mind is noisy, everlastingly chattering to itself, soliloquizing or chattering about something, or trying to talk to itself, to convince itself of something; it is always moving, noisy. And from that noise, we act. Any action born of noise produces more noise, more confusion. But if you have observed and learnt what it means to communicate, the difficulty of communication, the non-verbalization of the mind — that is, that communicates and receives communication—, then, as life is a movement, you will, in your action, move on naturally, freely, easily, without any effort, to that state of communion. And in that state of communion, if you enquire more deeply, you will find that you are not only in communion with nature, with the world, with everything about you, but also in communion with yourself.
“… it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.”
Source: Let the Great World Spin
“A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.”
Una cosa, hasta no ser toda, es ruido, y todo, es silencio.
Voces (1943)
“Some say silence is golden, I choose noise.”
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