Silent

Famous quotes containing the word silent:

“Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is—cynically and with innocence.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Why should she give her bounty to the dead?
What is divinity if it can come
Only in silent shadows and in dreams?”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)