“There is a dark place calling to me, but I will not go just yet.
I know I can't return from it.”
DeStefano
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“I rhyme
To see myself, to set the darkness echoing.”
Heaney
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“When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'what is the sound of the waterfall?'
'Silence,' he finally told me.”
Gilbert
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“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
Austen
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“I had never liked, even feared a little, this wild reach of marsh and mud flats where everything seemed turned away from the land, looking off desperately toward the horizon as if in mute search for a sign of rescue.”
Banville
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“And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.”
Conrad
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“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”
Murakami
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“Wherever there is light, look for the shadow."
Nin
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"I found myself bound to the earth, from nape to heel. I let it take my weight, and felt a kind of appeasement. Gravity seemed as sovereign as love."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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“All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.”
Plath