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"To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one."
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"Shut lips, sleeping faces,Every stopped machine,The dumb and littered placesWhere crowds have been:.All silences rejoice,Weep (loudly or low),Speak-but with the voiceOf whom, I do not know."
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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
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"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence."
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"I saw that she didn't want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it's because there's something important to be said."
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"Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence."
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"She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He swore that it wouldn't and she believed him. But it only got worse after that, like when his dinner was cold, or when she mentioned that she'd visited with one of the neighbors who was walking by with his dog. She just chatted with him, but that night, her husband threw her into a mirror."
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"Answer only when asked, otherwise do not say anything. Don't say a thing in this world. To tell [give advice] is the biggest disease. Your beard grows without you saying anything, doesn't it?"
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"The silence wasn't uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted--the quiet of people who have a great deal to think about but not a hell of a lot to say."
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"Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage."
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"There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud."
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