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“Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.”

Needs Writing Language Silence Music Is Rhythm My Thoughts

Author:Marianne Wiggins

“The silence is there within us. What we have to do is to enter into it, to become silent, to become the silence. The purpose of meditation and the challenge of meditation is to allow ourselves to become silent enough to allow this interior silence to emerge. Silence is the language of the spirit.”

Enough Spirit Purpose Language Challenges Silence Meditation Silent Interiors Silence Is

Author:John Main

“Silence is the only language of the realized. Practice moderation in speech.”

Language Silence Practice Speech Moderation Silence Is

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.”

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Author:Sam Rayburn

“Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity.”

Language Silence Violence Source Integrity Universal Excellence Metaphor Working It Formal Silence Is Mute

Author:Ihab Hassan

“A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis. Like statist language, censored and censoring. Ruthless in its policing duties, it has no desire or purpose other than maintaining the free range of its own narcotic narcissism, its own exclusivity and dominance. However moribund, it is not without effect for it actively thwarts the intellect, stalls conscience, suppresses human potential. Unreceptive to interrogation, it cannot form or tolerate new ideas, shape other thoughts, tell another story, fill baffling silences.”

“The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue, posits the separation as already effected, and thrusts into oblivion all those stammered, imperfect words without fixed syntax in which the exchange between madness and reason was made. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness, has been established only on the basis of such a silence.”

Source: Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry

“Anyone who has undergone home repair lately knows that your everyday artisan uses language so loosely and makes false promises so glibly as to make your politicians, even the presidential candidate, seem like a model of accuracy and rectitude. 'Be there Wednesday at nine,' the workman will tell you. It is a lie. He is humoring you. He says it to silence you, the way you tell a child you will take it to Disneyland if it will stop crying.”

“I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.”

Thinking Important Language Silence Communication Silence Is Emphasis

Author:Marina Abramovic

“Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart.”

Heart Lasts Language Silence Speakers

Author:Richard Jackson

“He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner.”

Thinking Littles Ideas Language Silence Direct Proportion Explicit

Author:Washington Irving

“The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity's language, technology, and buildings are an extension of its constructive faculties, the desert alone is an extension of its capacity for absence, the ideal schema of humanity's disappearance.”

Ifs Body Humanity Language Natural Silence Technology Building Capacity Ideals Absence Desert Faculty Extensions Constructive Disappearance Schemas

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want their work to shine not only in daylight but (by whatever illusionist magic) from within.”

Want Science Religion Language Behinds Silence Magic Poet Shining Painter Silence Is Daylight Illusionists

Book:Figures of thought: speculations on the meaning of poetry & other essays

Source: Figures of thought: speculations on the meaning of poetry & other essays

“The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?”

Suffering Language Silence Path Silent Speakers

Book:The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The most problematic word in America is the word "problematic." It's a wuss word used by people to silence language without actually saying that they want to silence you. They don't want to go full fascist.”

People Want America Used Language Silence Fascists

Author:Greg Gutfeld