May Sarton Quotes

The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

It's a bold statement but I think people need to read between the lines.

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

One has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said. Which is measure, which is rhythm and so on. So, it is what you don't write that frequently gives what you do write its power.

When mouths close, it’s because there’s something important to be said.

It's what people don't say that is often the most revealing.

When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said.

Even silence speaks.

We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

What goes unsaid eventually goes unthought

Is it a form of social play that underneath the words people say, there is a different conversation going on?

I'm sounding out the silence, avoiding all the words.

Speech is the organ of this present world. Silence is the mystery of the world to come.

The truth is silent. The truth doesn't come with words. It's something that I just know; it's something that I can feel without words, and it's called silent knowledge.

I don't have to tell you it goes without saying there are some things better left unsaid. I think that speaks for itself. The less said about it the better.

All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself expands. In silence, we often say, we can hear ourselves think; but what is truer to say is that in silence we can hear ourselves not think....In silence, we might better say, we can hear someone else think.

He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time.

We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.

When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.

You feel vulnerable when you hear things that are not being said

One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of us speaking, the many ways the conversation could go came and went like time-lapse film of flowers blooming and dying.

Speech is great, but silence is greater.