Quote for Today: Audre Lorde
CC Licensed Image by K.Kendall on Flickr I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you…. What are...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice,...
View ArticleQuote for Today: André Kostelanetz
Kamppi Chapel of Silence, Helsinki, Finland© Pentti Rautio with CCLicense The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing. Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Judith Jamison
© zefirina with CCLicense If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, that body will become an extension of what you’re hearing.” ― Judith Jamison,...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Jean Arp
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life,...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Jocelyn Murray
© ArtJonak with CCLicense When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence. ― Jocelyn Murray
View ArticleQuote for Today: A. Lee Martinez
© John Pittman with CCLicense Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn’t certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Georges Limbour
© Bruno Monginoux with CCLicense Having spent a long time in open spaces, whether sea or desert, it is a luxury to be able to take refuge in towns with narrow streets which provide a fragile fortress...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Lorine Niedecker
© Stuart Richards with CCLicense 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...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Paul Auster
© Kevin Dooley with CCLicense 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 to him in the way a...
View ArticleQuote 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 van Gogh, Starry Night over the Rhône
View ArticleQuote for Today: Ray B. Browne
© Cuidadano Poeta with CCLicense 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...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Jay Woodman
© Rob Marquardt with CCLicense 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 escape from the...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Albert Camus
Acoustic MirrorDenge, near Dungeness, Kent, UK© Miles Sabin with CCLicense The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Sarah Dessen
Public Domain Image via Pixabay 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 know I tried,...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Herman Hesse
Through the Trees Natural Falls State Park, Oklahoma © Katherine McDaniel 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...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Audre Lorde
© Richard with CCLicense 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 which I am...
View ArticleQuote 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 given a piece of paper…...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Leonora Carrington
© Jubair1985 with CCLicense We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves. —Leonora Carrington
View ArticleQuote for Today: Vera Nazarian
© Jessie Eastland with CCLicense Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off on an early adventure or business, but...
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