Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
W. S. Merwin
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JEFF RICH All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I've got to figure out how that happened.
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CHITA RIVERA My lands are where my dead lie buried.
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EDITH SITWELL My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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WILLIAM SAROYAN For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Wherever you are, be all there.
CRAIG GROESCHEL My safety and my family's safety are not guaranteed even now.
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W. H. AUDEN All that we are not stares back at what we are.
W. H. AUDEN A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a ...
W. H. AUDEN To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
W. H. AUDEN You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.
W. H. AUDEN In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him ...
W. H. AUDEN 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature...
W. H. AUDEN Art is born of humiliation.
W. H. AUDEN Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
W. H. AUDEN In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
W. H. AUDEN Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
W. H. AUDEN Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer un...
W. G. SEBALD