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> [I have a need of silence and of stars. Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed. The silken sound of whirled infinity Is lost in voices shouting to be heard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-alexander-percy/i-have-a-need-of-silence-and-of-stars-too-much-is-said-too-loudly-i/)

[William Alexander Percy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-alexander-percy/)

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## Other authors on Need Silence

## More by William Alexander Percy

> [“To the mind that could dream and shape our beaconed universe, what is injustice to us may be unfathomable tenderness, and our horror only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-alexander-percy/to-the-mind-that-could-dream-and-shape-our-beaconed-universe-what-is/)

[William Alexander Percy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-alexander-percy/)

> [It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what counts between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-alexander-percy/it-is-a-very-nice-world-that-is-if-you-remember-that-while-morals-are/)

[William Alexander Percy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-alexander-percy/)

> [I suspect anyway that the important things we learn we never remember because they become a part of us, we absorb them...we don't absorb…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-alexander-percy/i-suspect-anyway-that-the-important-things-we-learn-we-never-remember/)

[William Alexander Percy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-alexander-percy/)

> [With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-alexander-percy/with-us-when-you-speak-of-the-river-though-there-be-many-you-mean/)

[William Alexander Percy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-alexander-percy/)

> [I have a need of silence and of stars. Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed. The silken sound of whirled infinity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-alexander-percy/i-have-a-need-of-silence-and-of-stars-too-much-is-said-too-loudly-i/)

[William Alexander Percy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-alexander-percy/)

> [And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-alexander-percy/and-would-it-not-be-proud-romance-falling-in-some-obscure-advance-to/)

[William Alexander Percy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-alexander-percy/)

> [As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject, but a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-alexander-percy/as-with-all-great-teachers-his-curriculum-was-an-insignificant-part/)

[William Alexander Percy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-alexander-percy/)

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