Ed Zubrow wrote:

>>So, which is more important or profound, sound or silence? Friends' Meeting
>>poses this question as does Cage's 4'33.

Walter Meyer responded:

>"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter...." Keats, "Ode
>on a Grecian Urn".
>"Love and be silent...."  Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, scene 1.

"Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I
could say how much"
Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing, Act II, Scene 1

"Silence alone is great; all else is weakness"
Alfred DeVigny: La Mort du Loup

Drew M. Capuder
Fairmont, West Virginia USA
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