
„Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.“
— Robert G. Ingersoll Union United States Army officer 1833 - 1899
Speech of Love.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
— Robert G. Ingersoll Union United States Army officer 1833 - 1899
— Marcel Marceau French mime and actor 1923 - 2007
US News & World R eport (23 February 1987)
— Thomas Carlyle Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher 1795 - 1881
1830s, Sir Walter Scott (1838)
— Rumi Iranian poet 1207 - 1273
"The Three Fish" Ch. 18 : The Three Fish, p. 196
Variant translations or adaptations:
Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.
As quoted in Teachers of Wisdom (2010) by Igor Kononenko, p. 134
Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.
As quoted in "Rumi’s wisdom" (2 October 2015) http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2015/10/02/character-of-the-week-rumi/, by Paulo Coelho
Контексте: Silence
is an ocean. Speech is a river.When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk
into the language-river. Listen to the ocean,
and bring your talky business to an end Traditional words are just babbling
in that presence, and babbling is a substitute
for sight.
— Theodor W. Adorno German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society 1903 - 1969
Источник: On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening (1938), p. 271
— George Meredith British novelist and poet of the Victorian era 1828 - 1909
Источник: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859), Ch. 34.
— Ramana Maharshi Indian religious leader 1879 - 1950
Abide as the Self
— Edith Wharton American novelist, short story writer, designer 1862 - 1937
— Catherine Doherty Religious order founder; Servant of God 1896 - 1985
Источник: Poustinia (1975), Ch. 1
— Ramana Maharshi Indian religious leader 1879 - 1950
Abide as the Self
— W.B. Yeats, книга The Winding Stair and Other Poems
After Long Silence http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1432/
The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
Контексте: Speech after long silence; it is right,
All other lovers being estranged or dead,
Unfriendly lamplight hid under its shade,
The curtains drawn upon unfriendly night,
That we descant and yet again descant
Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song:
Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young
We loved each other and were ignorant.
— George Gordon Byron English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788 - 1824
— Carl Sandburg American writer and editor 1878 - 1967
Источник: Good Morning, America
— Pythagoras ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher -585 - -495 до н.э.
As quoted in the preface of the book entitled Music of the Spheres by Guy Murchie (1961)
The Golden Verses
— Pythagoras ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher -585 - -495 до н.э.
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Austrian Romantic composer 1756 - 1791
— Sun Ra American jazz composer and bandleader 1914 - 1993
"The Neglected Plane of Wisdom" (1966), p. 250
— Thomas Carlyle Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher 1795 - 1881
— George Herbert Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest 1593 - 1633
Jacula Prudentum (1651)