Culture Quote by Colm Tóibín

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

— Allan Bloom

“As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead, something to which lip service is paid in the vain…

— Allan Bloom

“Night keeps its own sounds to itself because most of them come from the other side of silence.”

— Jonathan Carroll

Come into the silence of solitude, and the vibration there will talk to you through the voice of God.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

The time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.

— August Spies

“The words that come from silence feed the heart.”

— Bert McCoy

Come to me in the silence of the night, Come to me in the speaking silence of a dream. Come with soft rounded cheeks…

— Christina Rossetti

“The music comes out of the silence. I don't mind if it goes back in. We come out of the silence...”

— Geoff Ryman

I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling.…

— Ishmael Beah

My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I…

— Alan Garner

Gershwin's melodic gift was phenomenal. His songs contain the essence of New York in the 1920s and have deservedly become classics of their kind,…

— George Gershwin

We have oral traditions in Mali, and songs are passed down and around this way. I think in the US you can play all…

— Vieux Farka Toure