“Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.”
Marvin Bell
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“Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.”
Buster Keaton
“Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence, and as long as we do not describe the action which breaks this silence. the spoken word is a gesture, and its meaning, a world.”
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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“Poetry is an orphan of silence.”
Charles Simic
“I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.”
Kahlil Gibran
“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.”
Mark Lawrence
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