Silent King

Famous quotes containing the words silent and/or king:

“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)

“If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)