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To silence gossip, don't repeat it.

To silence gossip, don't repeat it.

John Keats
Gossip, Silence, Repeats

As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.

John Keats
Time, Silence, Speech

Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time.

John Keats
Children, Silence, Foster Children
'Ode on a Grecian Urn' (1820) st. 1

A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.

John Keats
Silence, Littles, Noise
'I stood tip-toe upon a little hill' (1817) l. 10

On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.

John Keats
Winter, Silence, Frost
John Keats (1841). “The poetical works of John Keats”, p.228

Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from the fiery noon and eve's one star, Sat gray-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair.

John Keats
Stars, Sadness, Silence
1820 Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems, 'Hyperion', bk.1, l.1-5.

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