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silence defense opponents
Charles Caleb Colton When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
silence assertion
Charles Dickens We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?
silence stopping looks
Alan Watts To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.
silence building crescendo
Chogyam Trungpa As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
silence tragedy might
Chogyam Trungpa If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
silence lasts bed
Edith Wharton He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear.
silence may speech
Edith Wharton Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
silence ifs
David Hockney If you like music you like silence actually.
orphan
Andre Gide Not everyone can be an orphan.
orphan show-business shows
Red Buttons If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!
orphan form autobiography
John Berger Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
orphan prisoner dilemma
Trenton Lee Stewart I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma
poetry-is happens
Charles Bukowski Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
poetry-is knows dividends
Czeslaw Milosz Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.
poetry-is
Erica Jong ... poetry is fired by love ...
poetry-is
Gwendolyn Brooks The poetry is myself.
poetry-is translations
Joseph Brodsky Poetry is what is gained in translation.
poetry-is abstraction
Wallace Stevens Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.
poetry-is
Wallace Stevens All poetry is experimental poetry.