The absence of noise does not always mean quiet. Sometimes it is words or music that begins.
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Just as the shadow makes the outlines of an object visible, so is stillness the space in which the poetic word is formed. Shadow play on a house facade in Sardinia.
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Why wasn’t I careful when they erected these walls? / I didn’t hear the masons – no sound.
Konstantinos Kavafis, «Walls»
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