Quote for Today: Criss Jami
There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when …
Quote for Today: Audre Lorde
My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for …
Quote for Today: Herman Hesse
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, the longing reveals …
Quote for Today: Sarah Dessen
I knew that in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late again. I might have missed my chance. But I would at least …
Quote for Today: Albert Camus
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to …
Quote for Today: Jay Woodman
Count the times. The number of times you have seen the silence of another world seep though a crack. The number of times you have heard the sea trying to …
Quote for Today: Ray B. Browne
An even more pointed example of the the power of the silence tabu in libraries occurred in Duluth in 1981. The police were pursuing a fugitive from justice who ran …
Quote for Today: Vincent van Gogh
If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. —Vincent van Gogh
Quote for Today: Paul Auster
It is also true that memory sometimes comes to him as a voice. It is a voice that speaks inside him, and it is not necessarily his own. It speaks …
Quote for Today: Lorine Niedecker
I rose from marsh mud, algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs to see her wed in the rich rich silence of the church, the little white slave-girl …