In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.
Czesław Miłosz
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Gloomy room
immersed in a scent
of modern cowards
filled with
shapeless creature...
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If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent
If the unheard, unspoken
Word is unsp...
T.S. ELIOT A single word can brighten the face
of one who knows the value of words.
Ripened in silenc...
YUNUS EMRE ![]()
Let my silence grow with noise
as pregnant mothers grow with life.
Let my silence permea...
KAMAND KOJOURI ![]()
I Like For You To Be Still
I like for you to be still
It is as though you are...
PABLO NERUDA ![]()
There is a place born of silence
A place where the whispers of the heart arise.
There is a...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI ![]()
The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a con...
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Here's a funny question:
What is your favorite word?
Think about it—maybe it...
VERA NAZARIAN The wind sings of our nostalgia
and the starry sky ignores our dreams.
Each snow flake is...
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REFLECTIONS OF TRUTH
Where you find Truth
Is where you find your reflection
And...
SUZY KASSEM ![]()
Keep your secrets
Keep your silence
It is a better gift than truth
ANNE RICE ![]()
Word-Power'
Being stuck in my room,
I've become a world traveler.
If you wonder...
MUNIA KHAN ![]()
Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway.
Guildenstern: What?
Rosencrantz: England.
...
TOM STOPPARD ![]()
Since there is no real silence,
Silence will contain all the sounds,
All the words, all ...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Many Castles
On
My
Travels
i have been
A guest in
Many cast...
SILENT LOTUS With a changing key,
you unlock the house where
the snow of what’s silenced drifts.
PAUL CELAN the caress of each word becoming
one
with the page
t...
N'ZURI ZA AUSTIN ![]()
She skidded around a corner, slamming her shoulder into the wall and bouncing off of it without slow...
G.S. JENNSEN Wraith snorted. "Cowards. Seriously. Who brings a gun to a knife fight? That's cheating."
LARISSA IONE ![]()
Like one
Who having into truth, by telling of it,
Made such a sinner of his memory,
To c...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ![]()
The truth is sealed.
Life goes on.
Till one day, history changed...
Like thief in ...
TOBA BETA ![]()
The morning is full of storm
in the heart of summer.
The clouds travel like white ha...
PABLO NERUDA ![]()
How to be a Poet (to remind myself)
Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY Love
That’s it:
The cashless commerce.
The blanket always too short.
The...
GüNTER GRASS Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.
Everything passes.
That is the o...
OSAMU DAZAI ![]()
I suffer for birds and fireflies
but not frogs, she said,
and threw him across the room. ANNE SEXTON ![]()
One two, one two,
Type a word or two.
Arrow left, arrow right,
Keep those fingers ...
JAZZ FEYLYNN ![]()
When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.
Wh...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA ![]()
Skies are crying,
I am watching,
Catching teardrops in my hands.
Only silence, as it'...
DEMI LOVATO ![]()
Wait,” he said. “That’s not a word.”
I looked down to where, in a moment of despe...
RICHELLE MEAD Silence
It has a sound, a fullness.
It's heavy with sigh of tree,
and space bet...
ANGELA LONG ![]()
Red like blood
White like bone
Red like solitude
White like silence
Red like the...
TITE KUBO poets. have
the toughest job
in the universe-
of turning silence
into elo...
SANOBER KHAN ![]()
[High angel] Carter's fucked-up sense of humor in action.'
[The angel] Lucinda flus...
RICHELLE MEAD ![]()
The Three Oddest Words
When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already ...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA ![]()
THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF GASTRONOMY
There's a rule for proper doses
in the dinner-eat...
PIET HEIN ![]()
By the Valg, three were made,
Of the gate-Stone of the Wyrd:
Obsidian the gods forbade
SARAH J. MAAS ![]()
You are the night."
"I am the night," I repeated.
"You are the night."
I cocked my he...
MOLLY HARPER ![]()
SORTING HAT: "Albus Potter."
He puts his hat on Albus’s head — and this time he seems...
J.K. ROWLING ![]()
'You can't stop me. Your word voodoo, it doesn't work on me. Right? So how do you think you're goin...
MAX BARRY it is to be savored like a
seabreeze-whispered
dream...in the mysterious
blue ...
SANOBER KHAN ![]()
To an Isle in the Water
Shy one, shy one,
Shy one of my heart,
She moves in t...
W.B. YEATS The stony silence of death,
trapped by the original gravity of our sins,
and the perpetui...
BRIAN D'AMBROSIO ![]()
Living things don't all require
light in the same degree. Some of us
make our own light: a...
LOUISE GLüCK I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG ![]()
Your mother sounds like a formidable woman," Valek said into the silence.
"You have no idea," L...
MARIA V. SNYDER ![]()
A Word is Dead
A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I sa...
EMILY DICKINSON ![]()
Life is like a little book written
With a whole lot of surprise.
Spell a word that doesn�...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES ![]()
Escape plan number seventeen," I told her. "Run away and open a juice stand in Fresno."
"Why Fr...
RICHELLE MEAD I'm a Kashmiri ,
I live in a rogue place.
I'm surrounded by conformist ,
boot licking...
BINYAMIN GULZAR You see flaws in every face
If you look long enough.
That’s why I’m so afraid JUSTIN WETCH ![]()
there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
t...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI ![]()
WHAT IS TRUTH?
Truth is not a thing
Or a concept.
It is as multidimensional
SUZY KASSEM We are here in a wood of little beeches:
And the leaves are like black lace
Against a sk...
FREDERIC MANNING ![]()
Hold fast
To the law
Of the last
Cold tome,
Where the earth
Of the truth MERVYN PEAKE I breathe in...the silence
of my own heart
aching with tenderness
with memories..
SANOBER KHAN ![]()
A mother's love is like an island
In life's ocean vast and wide,
A peaceful, quiet shelter HELEN STEINER RICE ![]()
The point of simple living, for me has got to be:
A soft place to land
A wide ...
LEO BABAUTA ![]()
HOW
do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, so<...
ELLEN HOPKINS If this turns to friendship, it only means
That one of us will suffer.
That when we ...
CYRIL WONG ![]()
UNDIVIDED
I am for
One world undivided.
One world without fear and corruption...
SUZY KASSEM ![]()
Shivers heaved out a sigh. “Just trying to make tomorrow that bit better than today is all. I’m ...
JOE ABERCROMBIE ![]()
A tired man lay down his head
in a dusty room so dim,
and for so long his wife did shake ROMAN PAYNE sing so loud that the music
drowns out the sounds of
the naysayers.
one day they’ll...
JATAWNY MUCKELVENE CHATMON I’m not like her. I don’t steal people.”
Mr. Tibbalt watched her, saying nothing. CLAIRE LEGRAND ![]()
Feelings come and feelings go,
And feelings are deceiving;
My warrant is the Word of God--...
MARTIN LUTHER ![]()
A word of consolation
may sweetly touch the ear.
Now and then a quiet song
will clea...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH ![]()
-A Word On Statistics-
Out of every hundred people,
those who always kn...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA He was a late night
shot of bourbon
the taste of him
left me burning
with mouth...
MELODY LEE Sign
The Truth of Sign is Simple.
Sign Word is one but meaning are different.
s...
PRADEEP ![]()
the pleasures of the damned
are limited to brief moments
of happiness:
like eyes in t...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI ![]()
There is room in the halls of pleasure
For a long and lordly train,
But one by one we must al...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX ![]()
Cast up
the heart flops over
gasping 'Love'
a foolish fish which tries to draw<...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI ![]()
A seeker of radical strenght
Keeps everything on track,
Feeble force yields at length, <...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES ![]()
Constantly risking absurdity
and death
whenever he performs
above the heads
of ...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI ![]()
Power, like a desolating pestilence,
Pollutes what'er it touches; and obedience,
Bane of all ...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY People, like us
we feel... too deeply
consumed, in shadow
this game of chance.
T...
BEV FLYNN ![]()
A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard
A voice singing on a May Eve like this,
And followe...
W.B. YEATS ![]()
Pay to go inside Neruda's home
A body lies there with no dome.
But right there in the fron...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Drop a pebble in the water: just a splash, and it is gone;
But there's half-a-hundred ripples c...
JAMES W. FOLEY ![]()
Jesus in the Temple of God in Jerusalem
Matthew 21
12: AND JESUS WENT INTO THE...
SWAMI DHYAN GITEN ![]()
I have come to learn,
that when people of money and power organize
to set upon to break ...
TOM ALTHOUSE ![]()
The silence wasn't
like the ones I'd known
lately, though: it wasn't empty as much as chos...
SARAH DESSEN ![]()
The Wanderer
What is she like?
I was told—
she is a
melancholy soul.
LANG LEAV ![]()
A truth should exist,
it should not be used
like this. If I love you
is that a ...
MARGARET ATWOOD The journey of reinvention is one of raw emotions
Emerging from dormancy
Surprising as a p...
DAVE RUDBARG Hearts are feeling
Baez and Dyla...
BRENT M. JONES ![]()
Blink at the sunned scratch
and stumble into silence
pg. 55// A Coney Island of the ...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI ![]()
We sat in the car
& the night dropped
down until the
only sounds were
the ...
BRIAN ANDREAS ![]()
WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINK
Some people cower
and wince and shrink,
owing to fear of<...
PIET HEIN ![]()
Love- what is love?
A great and aching heart;
Wrung hands;
and silence;
and a lo...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON ![]()
Come to me in the silence of the night,
Come to me in the speaking silence of a dream.
Come w...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI ![]()
The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity
and I would not own one
except I ...
BRIAN ANDREAS Eyes blinded by the fog of things
cannot see truth.
Ears deafened by the din of things
HAROLD BELL WRIGHT ![]()
I wrote a poem to the moon
But no one noticed it;
Although I hoped that late or soon
Someo...
ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE ![]()
We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare."
"Scrabble?" He sounds surprised. "Scrabble's g...
SOPHIE KINSELLA All round me are words, and words and words,
They grow on me like leaves, they never
Seem ...
KAMALA SURAIYYA DAS ![]()
You ask me why I don't speak
Not a word at will
But write so much worth well over a mill'<...
CRISS JAMI ![]()
In this treacherous world
Nothing is the truth nor a lie.
Everything depends on the color<...
PEDRO CALDERóN DE LA BARCA A wealth you cannot imagine
flows through you.
Do not consider what strangers say.
Be...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی 
If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent
Let my silence grow with noise 
I Like For You To Be Still
There is a place born of silence
The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a con... 
Here's a funny question:
REFLECTIONS OF TRUTH
Keep your secrets
Word-Power'
Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway.
Since there is no real silence, 
She skidded around a corner, slamming her shoulder into the wall and bouncing off of it without slow... 
Like one 
The truth is sealed. 
The morning is full of storm
How to be a Poet (to remind myself)
I suffer for birds and fireflies
One two, one two, 
When I pronounce the word Future,
Skies are crying,
Wait,” he said. “That’s not a word.”
Red like blood
[High angel] Carter's fucked-up sense of humor in action.'
THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF GASTRONOMY 
By the Valg, three were made,
You are the night."
SORTING HAT: "Albus Potter."
'You can't stop me. Your word voodoo, it doesn't work on me. Right? So how do you think you're goin... 
To an Isle in the Water
Living things don't all require
Your mother sounds like a formidable woman," Valek said into the silence.
A Word is Dead
Life is like a little book written 
there is a loneliness in this world so great
Hold fast 
A mother's love is like an island 
The point of simple living, for me has got to be:
HOW 
UNDIVIDED
Shivers heaved out a sigh. “Just trying to make tomorrow that bit better than today is all. I’m ... 
A tired man lay down his head
Feelings come and feelings go,
A word of consolation 
There is room in the halls of pleasure 
Cast up
A seeker of radical strenght 
Constantly risking absurdity
Power, like a desolating pestilence, 
A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard
Pay to go inside Neruda's home
Jesus in the Temple of God in Jerusalem
I have come to learn, 
The silence wasn't
The Wanderer
A truth should exist,
We sat in the car 
WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINK
Love- what is love?
Come to me in the silence of the night, 
The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity
I wrote a poem to the moon 
We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare."
You ask me why I don't speak
In this treacherous world
Learning
The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them. 
Oggi penso talvolta che il vicino dell’Elefante poteva essere il futuro ufficiale della Gestapo ch... 