“Comme certaines musiquesLe poème fait chanter le silence,Amène jusqu’à toucherUn autre silence,Encore plus silence.As certain musicThe poem makes sing to silenceBring to the point of touchingAnother silenceEven more silence.”
“Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.”
“There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air.”
“Laisse le grand monde aller son train sonore, nous autres nicherons ici en silence.”
“But the solitude in Ohio is different from that of most other places. There is a certain silence to it, a certain loneliness.”
“Le silence est aux bruits ce que l'ombre est a la lumière, ou le sommeil a la veille: une autre face indispensable.”