Edgar Lee Masters Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea.
  And the silence of the city when it pauses,
  And the silence of a man and a maid,
  And the silence for which music alone finds the word.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Stars, Men, Sea

  Edgar Lee Masters (1916). “Songs and Satires”

• The mind sees the world as a thing apart, And the soul makes the world at one with itself. A mirror scratched reflects no image— And this is the silence of wisdom.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Wisdom, Mirrors, Silence

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.108, Courier Corporation

• There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Wisdom, Silence, Intelligence

  Edgar Lee Masters (1916). “Songs and Satires”

• The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Silence, Soul, Poison

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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