Becoming Quote by Mary Ruefle

“Unwritten words grow out of silence.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

There is a place where words are born of silence.

— Rumi

I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.

— Muriel Rukeyser

Sitting over words Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing Not far Like a night wind in pines or like the…

— Anonymous

“Look into words for the tomb of space where beauties & stones & eternities untangle. (...) In them is the flood which bothers the…

— MTC Cronin

Sometimes I hear my voice and it's been here, silent all these years

— Tori Amos

“Hello, listeners. In breaking news: the sky. The Earth. Life! Existence as an unchanging plane with horizons of birth and death in the faint…

— Welcome to Nightvale

“I can no longer stay quiet in this world, I have a voice and I feel it reverberate off my internal walls, making its…

— Elin Stebbins Waldal

“The Three Oddest Words When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence,…

— Wislawa Szymborska

The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of…

— James Joyce

“When your life is about to change, there is a silence that surrounds you. An eerie calm. Just as the birds quiet their singing…

— Kimberly Stedronsky Adams

The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.

— Molly Parker