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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Silence

1807–1882 United States

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The surest pledge of a deathless name
Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.

Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847)

Multitudinous echoes awoke and died in the distance.
* * * * * *
And, when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.

Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847)

All was silent as before—
All silent save the dripping rain.

What shall I say to you? What can I say
Better than silence is?

Three Silences there are: the first of speech,
The second of desire, the third of thought;
This is the lore a Spanish monk, distraught
With dreams and visions, was the first to teach.

Kéramos, and Other Poems (1878)

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