christopher leibow
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“There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is silence after a rainstorm, and before a rainstorm, and these are not the same. There is the silence of emptiness, the silence of fear, the silence of doubt. There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. This kind of silence can speak. Its voice may be melancholy, but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay. Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.”
― West with the Night
― West with the Night
“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”
― Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
― Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
“If this day in the lifetime of a hundred years is lost, will you ever touch it with your hands again? The”
― After The Ecstasy, The Laundry
― After The Ecstasy, The Laundry
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
― A Letter of Advice to a Young Gentleman Leaving the University Concerning His Behaviour and Conversation in the World
― A Letter of Advice to a Young Gentleman Leaving the University Concerning His Behaviour and Conversation in the World
“In our creation, God asked a question and in our truly living; God answers the question.”
― New Seeds of Contemplation
― New Seeds of Contemplation
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