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I love, love, love this line: "Silence is the well from which eloquence issues. It frames the impenetrability, vastness, and otherness of life, the awareness that life is both dear and cheap, near at hand and infinite." I want to carve it into the subway walls and tenement halls. -Sami

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Such an exact description of our "...landscape of concerted blather". The news alone is exhausting. I wonder how we come to any true thought at all sometimes. I write in my journal some days just to try and hear myself above the "noise". "Poetry is the blossom of silence." indeed. In Scorsese's wonderful film Kundun, the Dalai Lama says (of the occupation of Tibet), "They have stolen our silence." I think of that line often. It seems here we have an occupation of our own making. Thank you for sharing this.

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Yes, a thousand times yes, as Whitman said. Let there be hush.

One of my favorite essays of yours, dear to me. Thank you.

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