Communication Quote by Thornton Wilder

The poetry of speech.

— Lord Byron

“Silence has its own language and in that silence he found words within himself; words for her, words for him and words for them.”

— Faraaz Kazi

Poems are difficult to silence.

— Stephen Greenblatt

“Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.”

— Thomas Mann

“the word silence is still a sound, to speak is in itself to imagine knowing; and to no longer know, it would be necessary…

— Georges Bataille

“Turn down the daily noise and at first there is the relief of silence. And then, very quietly, as quiet as light, meaning returns.…

— Jeanette Winterson

“...there are times when silence is a poem.”

— John Fowles

“Silence was not built to be filled by noise, for when we do we forfeit what we would have heard had it been left…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Poetry is a principle of power invoked by all of us against our vanishing.”

— Allen Grossman

“Silence is a great companion when words are devoid of meanings.”

— Nema Al-Araby

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the…

— Anna Kamienska