„Like a long-legged fly upon the streamHis mind moves upon silence.“

— W.B. Yeats

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„A Nemean steed in terror of the fight bears the hero from the citadel of Pallas, and fills the fields with the huge flying shadow, and the long trail of dust rises upon the plain.“
— Statius
„Having disburdened his heart, the Inquisitor waits for some time to hear his prisoner speak in His turn. His silence weighs upon him. He has seen that his captive has been attentively listening to him all the time, with His eyes fixed penetratingly and softly on the face of his jailer, and evidently bent upon not replying to him. The old man longs to hear His voice, to hear Him reply; better words of bitterness and scorn than His silence. Suddenly He rises; slowly and silently approaching the Inquisitor, He bends towards him and softly kisses the bloodless, four-score and-ten-year-old lips. That is all the answer…“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
„Move like a beam of light;Fly like lightning,Strike like thunder,Whirl in circles aroundA stable center.“
— Morihei Ueshiba
„He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments.“
— Charles Spurgeon
„I’ll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly.“
— William Shakespeare
„This sound has its own silence; all living things are involved in this sound of silence. To be attentive is to hear this silence and move with it.“
— Jiddu Krishnamurti