#silence

Speech is the small change of silence. ↗

— George Meredith

#silence #small #speech

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. ↗

— Charles Simic

#behind #equal #experience #never #orphan

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#listening #music #personal #reading #silence

New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

#cannot #consider #day #directed #evidence

When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best. And, that's how me and J. are. When we're in a room together, we don't have to say anything. It's for real. ↗

— Britney Spears

#best #comfortable #how #love #me

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#correction #eye #friend #kills #know

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence. ↗

— Leopold Stokowski

#his #music #musicians #paint #painter

At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on. ↗

— Robert Stone

#also #back #between #brought #consider

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#breaks #heart #like #silence #sting

It is tact that is golden, not silence. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#silence #tact