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  • All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun,--it is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.

    Weed   Spring   Rain  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.157
  • I had never liked, even feared a little, this wild reach of marsh and mud flats where everything seemed turned away from the land, looking off desperately toward the horizon as if in mute search for a sign of rescue.

    Land   Horizon   Littles  
    John Banville (2008). “The Sea”, p.112, Pan Macmillan
  • Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name.

    Stupid   Names   People  
  • I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help.

    Thinking   Robins   Rope  
  • Sonnet XXV Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own: I wavered through the streets, among Objects: Nothing mattered or had a name: The world was made of air, which waited. I knew rooms full of ashes, Tunnels where the moon lived, Rough warehouses that growled 'get lost', Questions that insisted in the sand. Everything was empty, dead, mute, Fallen abandoned, and decayed: Inconceivably alien, it all Belonged to someone else - to no one: Till your beauty and your poverty Filled the autumn plentiful with gifts.

    Autumn   Moon   Tunnels  
    Pablo Neruda, “Sonnet XXV”
  • Have I missed a national holiday? There must be celebrations in the streets for you to be home at this hour of the day." "I'm calling it Summerset Goes Mute Day. The city's gone mad with joy.

    Home   Holiday   Cities  
  • All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.

    God   Longing   Mute  
    "Fictional character: Antonio Salieri". "Amadeus", 1984.
  • If I ended my career, I wouldn't mind doing a TV series if it was a western and I played a mute gunfighter so I wouldn't have to remember lines every week.

    Careers   Mind   Lines  
    "Robert Duvall’s talks about his faith-themed film “Seven Days in Utopia” - and why he’s not into “message movies”". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. December, 2012.
  • I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.

    Fire   Mouths   Might  
  • Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists.

    Funny   Blessed   Dental  
  • Her beauty might fascinate men, but it was difficult to charm them when she stood mute. . . .

    Men   Her Beauty   Might  
    Michelle Moran (2008). “The Heretic Queen: A Novel”, p.110, Broadway Books
  • A cat’s body can sustain a lot of damage without actually dying,” Lucas said, his voice as deep as the rumble of the earth itself. “You just think about that before you so much as scratch yourself without permission.” Ryan gulped and nodded, still mute.

    Cat   Thinking   Voice  
  • Ascend beyond the sickly atmosphere to a higher plane, and purify yourself by drinking as if it were ambrosia the fire that fills and fuels Emptiness. Free from the futile strivings and the cares which dim existence to a realm of mist, happy is he who wings an upward way on mighty pinions to the fields of light; whose thoughts like larks spontaneously rise into the morning sky; whose flight, unchecked, outreaches life and readily comprehends the language of flowers and of all mute things.

    Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard (1983). “Les Fleurs Du Mal”, p.14, David R. Godine Publisher
  • Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.

    Block   Silence   World  
    Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.65, Canongate Books
  • Since a photograph is frozen and mute, since there is no before and after, I don't want there to be a conscious awareness of any kind of literal narrative. And that's why I really try not to pump up motivation or plot or anything like that.

    Source: theamericanreader.com
  • I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence, gazing at the barren canyon walls. And the mute desert seemed to carry on our conversation for us.

    Wall   Men   Silence  
  • Either our history shall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.

    Mouths   Speak   Graves  
    William Shakespeare (1851). “The comedies, histories, tragedies and poems of William Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. National ed. [6]”, p.429
  • I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent Are quiet trees and the green listening sod; Hushed are the stars, whose power is never spent; The hills are mute: yet how they speak of God!

    Stars   Tree   Listening  
    Charles Hanson Towne, “Silence”
  • This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees.

    Moon   Light   Tree  
  • We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.

    Life   Games   Would Be  
  • Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.

    Nature   Poet   Celebrate  
    Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.30
  • the mute protest in your own bones

    Bones   Mute   Protest  
    George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.60, Arcturus Publishing
  • Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.

    Looks   Stories   Enough  
    Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.397, A&C Black
  • Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.

    Dog   Smell   Mute  
    Tove Jansson (2012). “The True Deceiver”, p.8, New York Review of Books
  • There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a Milton.

    Prejudices, Third Series ch. 3 (1922)
  • None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances.

    Love   Heart   Eye  
    Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.34
  • When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.

    Passion   Muse   Cupid  
  • Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly remaining mute and having to let writing die over and over again in me. These are not natural silences--what Keats called agonie ennuyeuse (the tedious agony)--that necessary time for renewal, lying fallow, gestation, in the natural cycle of creation. The silences I speak of here are unnatural: the unnatural thwarting of what struggles to come into being, but cannot.

  • I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.

    Kate Millett (2000). “Flying”, p.23, University of Illinois Press
  • The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne.

    Men   Thrones   Politics  
    William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.237, Hayes Barton Press
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