“The soul is silent.
If it speaks at all
it speaks in dreams.”
Source: "Child Crying Out", Ararat (1990)
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American poet 1943–2023Related quotes
“621. Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry painting that speaks.”
Quoted by Plutarch, De gloria Atheniensium 3.346f http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0234%3Astephpage%3D346f.
Variant translations:
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
Painting is silent poetry, poetry is eloquent painting.
See also: Ut pictura poesis
Quotations:Rukmini Devi Arundale, 1 December 2013, publisher-All Creatures Organization http://www.all-creatures.org/aro/q-arundale-rukminidevi.html,
“I am never silent. I speak eternally.”
"I Speak Eternally" http://www.avatarmeherbaba.org/erics/ispeak.html in Love Alone Prevails (1981) by Kitty Davy, p. 166, 179.
General sources
Context: External silence helps to achieve inner Silence, and only in internal Silence is Baba found — in profound inner Silence. I am never silent. I speak eternally. The voice that is heard deep within the soul is My voice — the voice of inspiration, of intuition, of guidance. Through those who are receptive to this voice, I speak.
Letter as published in The Letters of Mozart & His Family (1938) translated and edited by Emily Anderson, p. 1114.
“Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.”
“The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray.”