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"When I say I love the silence, I'm not being entirely truthful. What I actually love are the abundant, delicate sounds that amplify when I'm silent. These curious creaks, mutters, and hums compel my imagination."
"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
"For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the other day."
"I hear nothing. I hear nothing, but what does it mean that I hear nothing? I walk in the cemeteries of this city at night and I hear nothing. I walk among mortals and sometimes I hear nothing. I walk alone and I hear nothing, as if I myself had no inner voice."
"Silence prevailed everywhere, like the gloomy dumbness after the riots in the city."
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"I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning."
"If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included."
"Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone."
"Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without."
"I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change."
"If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster."
"You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off."
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