William Rose Benet quotes
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“And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying All we did not know.”
-- William Rose BenetSource : William Rose Benét (1933). “Starry Harness”
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“I will love you truly forever and a day!”
-- William Rose BenetSource : William Rose Benét (1947). “The Stairway of Surprise: Poems”, New York : Alfred A. Knopf
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“You cannot slay yourself in me, Nor I to all eternity Destroy my truest self in you.”
-- William Rose BenetSource : William Rose Benét (1927). “Man Possessed: Being the Selected Poems of William Rose Benét”
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“Only silence perfects silence.”
Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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“Silence is a text easy to misread.”
Source : A. A. Attanasio (1997). “The Eagle and the Sword”, Harper Prism
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“Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.”
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Source : Adam Hochschild (2011). “King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa”, p.356, Pan Macmillan
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“In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.”
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