“Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.”
“Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.”
“I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.”
“Silence is the only language god speaks.”
“There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.”
“A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.”