Wallace Stevens Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• Tell X that speech is not dirty silence
  Clarified. It is silence made still dirtier.

  Wallace Stevens

  Dirty, Silence, Speech

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Selected Poems”, p.157, Knopf

• I do not know which to prefer -
  The beauty of inflections
  Or the beauty of innuendoes,
  The blackbird whistling
  Or just after.

  Wallace Stevens

  Beauty, Music, Silence

  'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird' (1923)

• Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.

  Wallace Stevens

  Fall, Passion, Silence

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.287, Vintage

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