A. R. Ammons Quotes

Silence is best.

Listen to the sound of silence.

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.

I believe silence is the greatest sound of all.

Take time to be quiet.

No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will start singing.

I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.

The thing that I love, especially after sound check, is when I'm in that stadium alone. It's complete silence. I love that.

Who can wait in stillness while the mud settles?

Hopefully there will come a time when I have no words, when I can honor and hold that kind of stillness that I so need, crave, and desire in the natural world.

The silence was always the greates temptation.

Silence is a still noise.

Silence is so accurate.

I aspire only to silence.

I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

I like silence.

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

I really love peace and quiet.

I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no distractions and just be able to sit and think and just not be disturbed.

There is something joyous about not talking.

There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.

Each found her greatest safety in silence.