Coldly, sadly descends The autumn evening. The field Strewn with its dank yellow drifts Of withered leaves, and the elms, Fade into dimness apace, Silent;öhardlya shout From a few boys late at their play!

-Arnold, Matthew
  New Poems,'Rugby Chapel, November1857'.

The t is silent, as in Harlow.

-Asquith, Margot
Attributed riposte to  Jean Harlow who was having trouble pronouncing her name. The line may actually have been spoken by Margot Grahame, an English actress in Hollywood in the1930s.

It is not enough to be pause, to be hole to be void, to be silent to be semicolon, to be semicolony; 150

-Brathwaite
  Islands, no.3 'Rebellion', pt.6 'Negus', collected as The Arrivants:  A New World Trilogy (1973).

You would think the fury of aerial bombardment Would rouse God to relent; the infinite spaces Are still silent. He looks on shock-pried faces. History, even, does not know what is meant.

-Eberhart, Richard Ghormley
  'The Fury of  Aerial Bombardment'.

After the kingfisher's wing Has answered light to light, and is silent, the light is still At the still point of the turning world.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'Burnt Norton', pt.5.

In all the silent manliness of grief.

-Goldsmith, Oliver
  The Deserted Village, l.384.

St. Agnes' EveöAh, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limped trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold.

-Keats,John
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems,'The Eve of St.  Agnes', stanza1.

Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!

-Keats,John
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems,'Ode on a Grecian Urn', stanza 5.

By all ye will or whisper, By all ye leave or do, The silent sullen peoples Shall weigh your God and you.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'The White Man's Burden'.

Out of the Silent Planet.

-Lewis, C(live) S(taples)
   Title of novel.

Qui Deus a dune¤   esci e« nce e de parler bone eloquence, ne s'en deit taisir ne celer, ainz se deit voluntiers mustrer. Whoever God has given knowledge and eloquence in speaking, should not be silent or secretive, but should willingly show it.

-Maria¤ t egui,Jose¤   Carlos
c.1170  Lais, prologue, l.1^4.

Tonightöto you, the great silent majority of my fellow AmericansöI ask for your support.

-Nixon, Richard M(ilhous)
   Appeal to the nation, 3 Nov, for support in the Vietnam War.

   Even such isTime, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust, Who in the dark and silent grave When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days, And from which earth, and grave, and dust The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.

-Raleigh, Sir Walter
  'TheAuthor's Epitaph, Made by Himself'. Poem written the night before his death.

Conticuere omnes intentique ora tenebant Inde toro paterAeneas sic orsus ab alto. They fell silent, every one, and each face was turned intently towards him. From high on the dais Aeneas, Troy's Chieftain, began to speak.

-Virgil full name Publius Vergilius Maro
Aeneid, bk.2, l.1^2 (translated byW F Jackson Knight).

There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping silent.When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it, orevensuspectedanything† Whoeverrefuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection† Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.

-Weizsa«  cker, Richard Freiherr, Baron von
  On the 40th anniversary of the end of WorldWar II, in the NewYorkTimes,12 May.

Was sich u« b erhaupt sagen l a« sst, l a« sst sich klar sagen; und wovon man nicht reden kann, daru«  ber muss man schweigen. What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent.

-Wittgenstein, LudwigJosef Johann
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, preface (translated by Frank Ramsey).