"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together."
― Thomas Carlyle
Topic(s):
Poetry
More From Thomas Carlyle
- "History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion."
- "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."
- "I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil."
More In Poetry
- "I’m not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on ‘Paradise Lost’ to translate it."― Callan McAuliffe
- "I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests."― Pablo Neruda
- "When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."― John F. Kennedy