Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

-Ballard,J(ames) G(raham)
  Crash.

   why talk of beauty what could be more beaut- iful than these heroic happy dead who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter they did not stop to think they died instead then shall the voices of liberty be mute? He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water.

-cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings
  is 5,'Two, III'.

Mute and magnificent, without a tear.

-Dryden,John
  Threnodia  Augustalis, stanza 2.

He played an ancient ditty, long since mute, In Provence called,'La belle dame sans mercy'.

-Keats,John
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems,'The Eve of St.  Agnes', stanza 33.

The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute onTara's walls As if that soul were fled.

-Moore,Thomas
  Irish Melodies,'The Harp that once through Tara's Halls'.

   It is little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.

-Tennyson
  Idylls of the King,'Merlin andVivien', l.388^90.