Air Quote by Mervyn Peake

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

— Jim Elliot

As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (“The Face of the Skies”)

— George Sterling

Hush! Still as death, The tempest holds his breath As from a sudden will; The rain stops short, but from the eaves You see…

— James Russell Lowell

I say that we are wound With mercy round and round As if with air.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

The inward sighs of humble penitence Rise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymns Are scatter'd with the sounds of common air.

— Joanna Baillie

There's a saying that goes, 'The universe gives you a whisper, then a nudge, then a push and then an anvil on your head.

— Sara Genn

At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All whom war,…

— John Donne

I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.

— Jose Marti

And silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound

— Anonymous

How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of air around…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I, methought, while the sweet breath of heaven Was blowing on my body, felt within A correspondent breeze, that gently moved With quickening virtue,…

— William Wordsworth

The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.

— Matsuo Basho