„Silence is the speech of love,
The music of the spheres above.“

„Music and silence… combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.“

—  Marcel Marceau French mime and actor 1923 - 2007

US News & World R eport (23 February 1987)

„Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.“

—  Thomas Carlyle Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher 1795 - 1881

1830s, Sir Walter Scott (1838)

„Silence
is an ocean. Speech is a river.“

—  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.

„Music for entertainment … seems to complement the reduction of people to silence, the dying out of speech as expression, the inability to communicate at all. It inhabits the pockets of silence that develop between people molded by anxiety, work and undemanding docility.“

—  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

„Speech is the small change of Silence.“

—  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.

„Words move, music moves
Only in time; but that which is only living
Can only die. Words, after speech, reach
Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern,
Can words or music reach
The stillness…“

—  T.S. Eliot 20th century English author 1888 - 1965

„Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.“

—  Ramana Maharshi Indian religious leader 1879 - 1950

Abide as the Self

„Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.“

—  Edith Wharton American novelist, short story writer, designer 1862 - 1937

„True silence is the speech of lovers. For only love knows its beauty, completeness and utter joy.“

—  Catherine Doherty Religious order founder; Servant of God 1896 - 1985

Источник: Poustinia (1975), Ch. 1

„True silence is really endless speech.“

—  Ramana Maharshi Indian religious leader 1879 - 1950

Abide as the Self

„Speech after long silence; it is right“

—  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.

„There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears;
The earth is but the music of the spheres.“

—  George Gordon Byron English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788 - 1824

„There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always.
If the music dies down there is a silence.
Almost the same as the movement of music.
To know silence perfectly is to know music.“

—  Carl Sandburg American writer and editor 1878 - 1967

Источник: Good Morning, America

„There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacings of the spheres.“

—  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

„A fool is known by his Speech; and a wise man by Silence.“

—  Pythagoras ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher -585 - -495 до н.э.

The Sayings of the Wise (1555)

„The music is not in the notes,
but in the silence between.“

—  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Austrian Romantic composer 1756 - 1791

„Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.“

—  Sun Ra American jazz composer and bandleader 1914 - 1993

"The Neglected Plane of Wisdom" (1966), p. 250

„Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.“

—  Thomas Carlyle Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher 1795 - 1881

„678. More have repented speech then silence.“

—  George Herbert Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest 1593 - 1633

Jacula Prudentum (1651)