“Lead us toward a speech, which is as beautiful as silence, and toward a silence, which is as beautiful as the sweetest and truest of words. (119)”

“Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.”

“Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?”

“The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.”

“Words move, music movesOnly in time; but that which is only livingCan only die. Words, after speech, reachInto the silence. Only by the form, the pattern,Can words or music reachThe stillness...”

“Even speech was for them was a debased form of silence; how much more futile is poetry which is a debased form of speech.”