Silence
Silence is Golden;
It truly is
for the people who can fathom
the Unspoken, the Unsaid.
Silence is the Virtue
Of people god-fearing,
For the Devil lets loose tongues
of the Cunning and the Unnerving.
In times of Wrath and Injustice,
When the Evil wreaks havoc,
Seek Patience and Perseverance
And wait for Justice round the clock.
The World is an illusion,
The inhabitants misleading
So what difference does it make
In dissembling and deceiving?
Words of Wisdom, Words of Lore
aid Mankind in survival galore
When still Ungodliness expands to Horror,
replace good Silence with a thumping roar.
Silence is Noble,
Ah! As noble as Faith
Silence is Treacherous,
Alas! Enwrapped in hapless Swathe.
O’ chatterer! Stop your un-mindful chatter
Seek guidance from the Mind and let go of the clatter;
Forget not what shall remain past Mankind’s shatter
Silence –- the solitary Truth shall matter.
Loose Lips -- Jason Levesque
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule. Not William the Silent only, but all the considerable men I have known, and the most undiplomatic and unstrategic of these, forbore to babble of what they were creating and projecting. Nay, in thy own mean perplexities, do thou thyself but hold thy tongue for one day: on the morrow, how much clearer are thy purposes and duties; what wreck and rubbish have those mute workmen within thee swept away, when intrusive noises were shut out! Speech is too often not, as the Frenchman defined it, the art of concealing Thought; but of quite stifling and suspending Thought, so that there is none to conceal. Speech too is great, but not the greatest. As the Swiss Inscription says: Sprecfien ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden (Speech is silvern, Silence is golden); or as I might rather express it: Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.
ReplyDelete-- Thomas Carlyle, "Sartor Resartus" (1836)
Carlyle began writing "Sartor Resartus" (The Tailor Retailored) in 1831 as a new kind of book, simultaneously factual and fictional, a commentary on a fictional philosopher of clothes named Diogenes Teufelsdröckh ("God-born Devil-dung), whose magnum opus had been published by Stillschweigen und co. (Silence and Company). It was serialized in "Fraser's Magazine" in 1833 and 1834. In 1836 Ralph Waldo Emerson arranged for its publication in book form in Boston, leading to its publication in London 2 years later; it strongly influenced the development of Emerson's own transcendentalist philosophy and led Walt Whitman to say that, without Carlyle, a half century of British thought "would be like an army with no artillery."