Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences. - Thornton Wilder

Many who have dedicated their life to love, can tell us less about this subject than a child who lost his dog yesterday.

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

Even speech was for them was a debased form of silence; how much more futile is poetry which is a debased form of speech.